blameless

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Recent Examples of blameless In the backfield, neither Rhamondre Stevenson and TreVeyon Henderson are blameless. Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 14 Oct. 2025 In her view, Kimmel is blameless. Dan Doperalski, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025 And Jeremiah himself isn’t blameless. Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 18 Sep. 2025 Stroud isn’t blameless in the Texans’ severe pass-protection issues dating to last year. Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025 No party in the war was blameless, but Hezbollah distinguished itself by outright rejecting norms of war and diplomacy. Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025 But Newcastle are not blameless. Harry De Cosemo, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025 The Bensons appreciate his frustration with E-ZPass but do not see him as blameless. Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blameless
Adjective
  • De Silva, police noted, was an innocent bystander who was not involved in the quarrel and was not believed to have been the target.
    Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 26 Oct. 2025
  • So that seemingly innocent Machu Picchu stamp—one of the most popular souvenir stamps around—could be viewed not as a harmless keepsake but as an unauthorized alteration that might jeopardize your ability to travel.
    Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • And how many guiltless prisoners there are here!
    Alexei Navalny, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Many fans found its generally joyous treatment of Miranda’s guiltless affair with Che, a nonbinary comedian, in the first season off-putting.
    Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 21 June 2023
Adjective
  • The chocolate coating on these is faultless, but the pretzel inside is more hard than crispy, and the almond butter filling falls flat.
    Jolene Thym, Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2025
  • This was a long, long way from being a faultless performance — Forest looked vulnerable defensively after making a host of attacking changes in an effort to claw their way back into the game.
    Paul Taylor, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Each of them offers money and position but nothing much in the way of pleasure, excitement, intellectual stimulation, or the prospect of anything other than a life of loveless, socially irreproachable tedium possibly brightened by the occasional extramarital affair.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Beneath their air of irreproachable authority, Jung and Freud — both brilliantly played, the first with subtlety, the other with theatrical relish — wrestle with petty grievances and insecurities, while the former stubbornly rationalizes his affair with onetime patient Spielrein.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025

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“Blameless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blameless. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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