blameless

adjective

Definition of blamelessnext
as in innocent
free from guilt or blame a blameless baby shouldn't have to suffer for his parents' mistakes

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Recent Examples of blameless Leaders should restore clear end-to-end accountability, align on-call and incident response with the teams that ship the code, and rebuild a blameless culture. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026 Schlittler wasn’t blameless in that, committing a throwing error on a pickoff play in the first inning. — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 26 June 2026 Mendoza certainly wasn’t blameless, and Wednesday night’s error-fest, in which all four Mets infielders put their own horrific spin on hitting for the cycle, was effectively the last straw. — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 26 June 2026 That gets put on so many women in the justice system, to present a version of events and self that is completely blameless at every moment — and even that doesn’t work sometimes. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 June 2026 The United States is not blameless here. — David Frum, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026 The duo settled this week ahead of their courtroom showdown and issued a needle-thread media statement, which was a meaningless, blameless word salad with hedge sauce. — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2026 Yet while Vitello is not blameless in the Giants’ poor start, there aren’t many buttons Vitello can push when the team’s foundational players are collectively underperforming. — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 7 May 2026 The Golden Knights were hardly blameless. — ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blameless
  1. innocent
  2. guiltless
  3. faultless
  4. irreproachable
Adjective
  • Instead, Judith completes the task on her own terms, terrorizing Sam and innocent skiers in her wake.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 15 July 2026
  • The investigator, Dan Myers, met with Clapper and came away with the impression that Clapper believed Broadwater was innocent of the crime and Weakfall was guilty.
    — ProPublica, ProPublica, 14 July 2026
Definition of innocent
Adjective
  • In any year, in any culture, there are no antagonists (save for Nazis) better suited as action cinema heavies; rooting against child trafficking lowlifes is moral, easy, and best of all, a completely guiltless pleasure.
    — Andy Crump, IndieWire, 15 June 2026
  • Chick lit was flippant and fizzy and fun, above all, as effervescent and guiltless as a vodka soda.
    — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 4 May 2026
Definition of guiltless
Adjective
  • A couple of nerve-settling wins became a faultless record in the group stage.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 1 July 2026
  • And there was no mucking about with changing audio output settings, as doing so switched the sound to the X7's speakers and the wireless connectivity was faultless.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 29 June 2026
Definition of faultless
Adjective
  • Rather than focus on a single irreproachable hero, Mendonça Filho dilates his lens to take in an expansive world.
    — Michael Snyder, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Classics from the diasporic Vietnamese repertoire are included, too, with irreproachable instructions.
    — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 5 Mar. 2026
Definition of irreproachable

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