blameless


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blame·less

 (blām′lĭs)
adj.
Free of blame or guilt; innocent.

blame′less·ly adv.
blame′less·ness n.
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blameless

(ˈbleɪmlɪs)
adj
free from blame; innocent
ˈblamelessly adv
ˈblamelessness n
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.blameless - free of guiltblameless - free of guilt; not subject to blame; "has lived a blameless life"; "of irreproachable character"; "an unimpeachable reputation"
clean-handed, guiltless, innocent - free from evil or guilt; "an innocent child"; "the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty"
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blameless

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blameless

adjective
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Translations
بَريء، طاهِر
bezúhonnýnevinný
pletfri
saklaus; ámælislaus
bezúhonný
kabahatsızsuçsuz

blameless

[ˈbleɪmlɪs] ADJ (= innocent) → inocente; (= irreproachable) → intachable
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blameless

[ˈbleɪmləs] adjirréprochable
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

blameless

adjschuldlos; lifeuntadelig
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

blameless

[ˈbleɪmlɪs] adjirreprensibile
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

blame

(bleim) verb
1. to consider someone or something responsible for something bad. I blame the wet road for the accident.
2. to find fault with (a person). I don't blame you for wanting to leave.
noun
the responsibility (for something bad). He takes the blame for everything that goes wrong.
ˈblameless adjective
innocent. a blameless life.
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References in classic literature ?
So she lay in the arms of Poseidon and bare in the house of Glaucus blameless Bellerophon, surpassing all men in....
"And you," he cried passionately, "are you yourself so blameless? Were you altogether deceived by your relations, or had you never a suspicion that your father might still be alive?
And must not that be a blameless study which he only can pursue who has the gift of a good memory, and is quick to learn,--noble, gracious, the friend of truth, justice, courage, temperance, who are his kindred?
Because thou art gentle and of upright character, thou sayest: "Blameless are they for their small existence." But their circumscribed souls think: "Blamable is all great existence."
Putting things at the worst, at all events, as in meditation I so often did, any clouding of their innocence could only be-- blameless and foredoomed as they were--a reason the more for taking risks.
Candor will oblige us to admit that even such men may be actuated by upright intentions; and it cannot be doubted that much of the opposition which has made its appearance, or may hereafter make its appearance, will spring from sources, blameless at least, if not respectable -- the honest errors of minds led astray by preconceived jealousies and fears.
Darcy's conduct in it less than infamous, was capable of a turn which must make him entirely blameless throughout the whole.
He was so honest and conscientious, that, if he had been only a private man, his life would probably have been blameless and happy.
Archer entirely approved of family solidarity, and one of the qualities he most admired in the Mingotts was their resolute championship of the few black sheep that their blameless stock had produced.
For my part, I should be sorry to think that there was nothing between Anthony and Cleopatra but an economic situation; and it will require a great deal more evidence than is ever likely to be available, thank God, to persuade me that Tiberius was as blameless a monarch as King George V.
She did not know then that it was Love who had come to her briefly, as in a dream before awaking, with the hues of morning on his wings-- that it was Love to whom she was sobbing her farewell as his image was banished by the blameless rigor of irresistible day.
If Nicholas be not always found to be blameless or agreeable, he is not always intended to appear so.