blameless

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Recent Examples of blameless 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
  • Unless more Democrats start being realistic, many more innocent people will unfortunately continue to suffer.
    Christopher Tremoglie, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Ben Lewis Doherty, playing a boy named Sam whose life is upended by Robbie, is the show’s greatest innocent, a softhearted moppet who warns deer to be careful when crossing the street.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Sep. 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
  • Newcastle’s faultless pressing halted Villa’s build-up in the first half and often forced Bizot to go long, where Schar and Dan Burn dominated the aerial duels, and the midfield were in position to win the second balls.
    Ahmed Walid, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
  • That philosophy has translated into a menu that is smaller, more focused, and, in my personal opinion, faultless.
    Lela London, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 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 9 Sep. 2025.

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