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Recent Examples of guiltless 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 In the wake of Franco’s death, in 1975, came the pacto del olvido, or pact of oblivion—a determination, enshrined in the Amnesty Law of 1977, to brush away the vestiges of former crimes and hence to move onward with a guiltless transition to democracy. Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2021 So hats (halos?) off to you, Mr. Woolverton, and may the binge-watching, pint-guzzling, relatively guiltless movie marathons commence. Susie Neilson, The Cut, 21 Aug. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for guiltless
innocent
Adjective
  • On July 8, U.S. soldiers escorting a train fired at crowds in Hammond, killing an innocent bystander.
    Robert Loerzel, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2025
  • Night in West Texas is a probing look at the cracks in the American justice system and how one innocent man so easily slipped through them.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 21 June 2025

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“Guiltless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guiltless. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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