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Definition of innocent in English: innocentadjective ˈɪnəs(ə)ntˈɪnəsənt 1Not guilty of a crime or offence. the prisoners were later found innocent he is innocent of Sir Thomas's death Example sentencesExamples - However, the consequences of choosing the cheaper route cannot be to deprive an innocent plaintiff of the ability to prove its case.
- The innocent plaintiff is generally entitled to recover either expectation damages or reliance damages, but not both.
- But knowledge of your wife's pregnancy is not a felony offense yet so he did not plead innocent or not guilty to that.
- Thirty-two years ago since I was called to the Bar and in 32 years I have never known anybody who pleaded guilty when they were innocent.
- The judge pointed out that the absence of previous convictions did not of itself mean that a defendant was innocent anymore than the existence of previous convictions meant that a defendant was guilty.
- The plaintiff was an innocent party and acted properly.
- In French trials, defendants do not plead guilty or innocent at the start of proceedings.
- Between the wrongful conviction of the innocent and the wrongful acquittal of the guilty, the choice should always be, without any hesitation, the latter.
- In the US justice system if an innocent man found guilty at trial does not feign guilt and remorse he is likely to be mercilessly punished.
- The court found that the repudiation by the owners was wrongful and that the plaintiff was the innocent party.
- Under Turkish law, everyone accused of a political or criminal offence is innocent until the crime is proved.
- They had to decide - on the basis of the legal arguments put forward - whether the defendant was guilty or innocent.
- It is worth embarrassing the accuser, to avoid the risk of a wrongful conviction and possibly spare an innocent defendant years in prison.
- If we did follow a policy of no victims' names, we'd be horribly unfair to the other party, the person who's picked up for the crime and who is innocent until proved guilty.
- There is no doubt that the people who died were innocent of any wrongdoing, at both tragedies, but there were people at both tragedies who were not innocent; and they were not all policemen.
- Since they just know whether a defendant is guilty or innocent, why worry about niceties of evidence?
- It's true that DNA serves a useful purpose both in clearing innocent suspects and convicting guilty ones, but mass testing is troublesome.
- Until anyone is convicted of any crime, no matter how horrific the crime, they are innocent until proven guilty.
- Let the people, and the world, judge who is right and who is wrong, who is guilty and who innocent.
- Everyone charged with a criminal offence shall be presumed innocent until proved guilty in accordance with law.
Synonyms guiltless, guilt-free, not guilty, blameless, not to blame, in the clear, unimpeachable, irreproachable, above suspicion, beyond criticism, without fault, faultless honourable, honest, upright, upstanding, law-abiding, incorrupt informal squeaky clean - 1.1innocent of Without experience or knowledge of.
a man innocent of war's cruelties Example sentencesExamples - It is oblivious to the suffering of the Jews in Europe and to the Holocaust and innocent of any knowledge of pogroms or ghettos.
- He was only about 23, and completely innocent of the wider world.
- The accepted view was that girls going to the marriage bed would be innocent of any sexual experience and would then gain it from their ‘considerate’ husbands.
- She knows she is innocent of infernal rites or knowledge of Satan, but she also knows that she has seduced and killed with psychological precision.
- 1.2innocent of Without; lacking.
a street quite innocent of bookshops Example sentencesExamples - He suggested it was worrying to players to suspect they could inadvertently test positive for a banned substance, believing it to be innocent of such chemicals.
Synonyms free from, without, lacking (in), empty of, clear of, unacquainted with, ignorant of, unaware of, unfamiliar with, untouched by rare nescient of
2attributive Not responsible for or directly involved in an event yet suffering its consequences. Example sentencesExamples - The Evening Press is calling on the people of York and North and East Yorkshire to help ease the suffering of innocent children in Iraq.
- For those involved in internal security operations, a ricochet striking an innocent bystander can have major political consequences.
- But, with that intensity have come many and varied tantrums and out-bursts, often directed at wholly innocent bystanders.
- It didn't help, of course, not really, but at least there were no innocent bystanders around to suffer my invective.
- Much of the policing so far is unobjectionable in its goals and motivation but barely acceptable in the costs to innocent civilian bystanders.
- This appeal raises the question of the availability of the remedy of subrogation as against an innocent third party purchaser.
- And for that world, it is now imperative that no further suffering is inflicted on innocent people.
- We strongly condemn this operation that happened in Jerusalem today, especially that it was directed against innocent Israeli civilians.
- However, we are now at war so we all need to face up to the reality and do as much as we can to ease the suffering of innocent civilians.
- Amnesty International is worried that the stun guns could ‘inflict pain and other suffering on innocent bystanders’.
- Remember Vietnam and the endless suffering of innocent people.
- It really is remarkable that so many people have been so cavalier in considering our responsibility for the mass death of completely innocent and completely defenceless civilians.
- However, indefinite containment without a plan will only prolong the suffering for innocent Iraqis.
- It is even possible that innocent bystanders may suffer casualties as a result.
- But Afghanistan is a hard land and the simple fact remains that those fighting for control of power rarely, if ever, bother about the suffering of innocent civilians.
- As a rule such conflicts take the form of ‘contract killings’ of certain businessmen not involving the murder of innocent bystanders.
- He apologized for hitting the wrong people, saying he didn't like getting innocent bystanders involved.
- This in fact means to struggle in the way of God by striving to do good, and to fight against only those who persecute and not by attacking innocent civilians or bystanders.
- He knew that he was not responsible they were just innocent bystanders, he had done nothing wrong, what blame there was rested with other people.
- This campaign helps make a difference to ease the suffering of so many innocent people languishing in prison.
3Free from moral wrong; not corrupted. Example sentencesExamples - Babies are so beautiful, so innocent and not yet corrupted by our evil world full of shady characters.
- We may have lost this round, but we will continue to fight until an innocent girl is set free to live and enjoy her life.
- This Satanist conspiracy has as its agents all scientists and teachers who are actively trying to corrupt innocent children through public education.
- Tell me that television isn't a babysitter, and that I'm corrupting her innocent l'il mind.
- Freeing an innocent girl from the many lies that had enveloped her life hardly fits the description of an evil act.
- While we wait, one of us might write a speculative novel about a happy, innocent world mercifully free of insufferable literary talk.
- We know that it is wrong to destroy innocent life-forms.
- She was innocent, easily corrupted by Destiny's ways.
- But collective punishment of a whole people, especially of innocent children, is wrong.
Synonyms virtuous, pure, sinless, free of sin, moral, decent, righteous, upright, wholesome, demure, modest, chaste, virginal, virgin, impeccable, pristine, spotless, stainless, unblemished, unsullied, incorrupt, uncorrupted, uncontaminated, undefiled informal squeaky clean, whiter than white, as pure as the driven snow Christianity immaculate - 3.1 Simple; naive.
she is a poor, innocent young creature Example sentencesExamples - You might think we are fools to be so naive, so innocent, so foolish.
- He knows he is innocent and naïve - he doesn't always know what to do or say - but he believes it is important to be tough, and to belong.
- Eddie is an innocent, naïve and wide-eyed security guard inadvertently caught up in Gary and Frank's plans.
- To rot this thread just a little I really think we've done children a complete disservice by assuming them to be naive, innocent little creatures.
- He is very innocent, even more naive than Sasha.
- Little did I know that it would corrupt my innocent little mind.
- So when I saw how innocent, how naive he was, I took it upon myself to be his mentor.
- Perhaps it is the illusion of a simpler, more innocent time that draws people unexpectedly under its power.
- Niceland revolves around Jed - a simple, innocent young man who very likely has some sort of developmental disorder.
- You could believe he was a young cop because LAPD cops are big and strong and physical and he's also young and naïve and innocent and wide eyed.
- Now, call me naive and slightly innocent… but I figured this was a safe thing to do.
- I was still naïve, innocent, and open in seventh grade.
- He was like a little child, too innocent, too naive.
- They stand quite capable of transporting a willing listener back to the simpler, more innocent days of techno: the early 1990s.
- She was simply too innocent, too naive to understand the look he had when he looked at her.
- Her eyes always had a way of making everything seem so sweet, so innocent, and so simple.
- In the light of this, one might be inclined to say that she is naïve or innocent or foolhardy.
- We grew up in a simpler, more innocent Ireland, a less-complicated Ireland.
- She was innocent, simple, and, no matter what tales of travel she told, most likely lost.
- It allows us to revisit a time in our past when life was simpler and more innocent.
Synonyms naive, ingenuous, trusting, trustful, over-trusting, credulous, unsuspicious, unsuspecting, unwary, unguarded, unsceptical, impressionable, gullible, easily deceived, easily taken in, easily led inexperienced, unworldly, unsophisticated, green, wide-eyed simple, artless, guileless, childlike, frank, open informal wet behind the ears, born yesterday, as green as grass
4Not involving or intended to cause harm or offence; harmless. Example sentencesExamples - Ill-timed injury was partly to blame, but so was an innocent jest that went wrong.
- My innocent pleasure in those evenings shattered when a local gossip spread the word that I was on the prowl for other women's husbands, one in particular.
- As far as I'm concerned, this sounds like an innocent mistake.
- You quickly and publicly recognize that even if it was an innocent mistake, his credibility is now so damaged that he can no longer help the party by remaining in the leadership.
- So it could hardly have been an innocent mistake.
- Offending drivers are to be pulled over as part of a pilot scheme and ‘given advice’ rather than booked, on the basis that it is pointless fining people for innocent mistakes.
- A second change I have noticed has been the way in which people react to seemingly innocent events.
- But their eagerly anticipated innocent pleasure has been jeopardised by the antics of a few selfish individuals on bikes.
- I remind you again, this is university - it seems preposterous to me that a seemingly innocent event such as carrying home a drunken friend could wind you up in so much trouble.
- The Republicans are acting like it was all an innocent mistake.
- The mimicry programmes may be crude, but they are harmless and provide innocent fun to the audience.
- I'd like to believe that the Times just made an innocent mistake.
- It would seem the most innocent of Christmas stories.
- It was a simple question, an innocent question.
- The notion that linking to such material is an innocent mistake that anyone could make is one that, for all my charitable instincts, I find difficult to swallow.
- That seemingly innocent change has dramatic consequences for phenomenology.
- We all agreed that the situation was purely innocent, harmless Internet fun.
- But where I think the learned judge has erred, is in making the possibility of such an innocent breach of the covenant a test of its validity.
- I was present throughout it and that she should make up a story like that from such an innocent event is - I think it's disgraceful.
- When trainees have no riskfree way of getting adequate explanations, they may draw the wrong conclusions about entirely innocent research conduct.
Synonyms harmless, innocuous, safe, non-injurious, unobjectionable, inoffensive, playful benign, non-cancerous, non-malignant, non-dangerous, harmless, not life-threatening curable, remediable, treatable technical benignant
noun ˈɪnəs(ə)ntˈɪnəsənt 1A pure, guileless, or naive person. Example sentencesExamples - My own mother was as naive a little innocent as any who had ever lived, had nothing more than a vague idea as to what the more persistent of her pursuers wanted.
- You and the babe are no innocents, and you well know that it is madness for you to expect any shelter from us.
- Verloc is here a cinema owner instead of a tobacconist, and Stevie, the retarded child in the novel, is recast as merely a young innocent.
- Worst of all, it seeps into the children at a young age, turning them from innocents into fanatics.
- I said, you know, I'd like to bring my friend because I was still, you know, very much an innocent and kind of naive.
- He says the Telegraph ignored important reasons to suppose that the girl, or more likely her parents, were not innocents abroad but downloaders on a big scale.
- From the mouths of innocents and babes comes the truth.
- They are particularly impressive in their roles as the two younger girls - innocents who quickly come to grips with the nastiness of their new reality.
- Where race in America is concerned, there are no innocents.
- Let them know how you ruined a young innocent's life.
- They were innocents abroad who were only doing what their society expected of them.
- A kind-hearted innocent with a passion for the lives of the saints, Damian is playing in his own cardboard sanctuary when a bag falls from the heavens.
- but it very quickly becomes apparent that he is actually a pure innocent who means no harm by his break-ins.
- But he also knew that God's mercy would protect the innocent.
- Balcon saw the story as a heartwarming tale of a young innocent's triumph over adversity, against the fantastic scenery of the African continent.
- ‘There was a period when he really ran out of juice in terms of playing the young innocent,’ observes Stoff.
- She was far from a naive young innocent; she knew exactly what was happening, what had been happening since last night.
- His wife and I are also uncertain about those young innocents you tutor.
- Now it seems they weren't the only innocents abroad in Prague in the late '80s, early 90s.
- Oh, out of the mouths of babes - there's always a giggle to be had from the young innocents.
Synonyms unworldly person, naive person child novice, greenhorn French ingénue literary babe in arms, babe 2A person involved by chance in a situation, especially a victim of crime or war. they are prepared to kill or maim innocents in pursuit of a cause Example sentencesExamples - The intentional killing of civilians is proscribed, and so are military actions that show a gross disregard for the lives of innocents.
- In this instance, everyone had an aesthetic opinion, as if aesthetics had anything to do with the sacrificial slaughter of 6,000 innocents.
- Iraq spells war, and war means the killing of the innocents, babies, the very young, the very old and those in between.
- The tsunami has evoked much commentary on the ‘meaning’ of the deaths of innocents and the malevolence of nature.
- The idea that we might all agree to call the murder of thousands of innocents an evil act is obviously still too daring for the generation that is destined to replace us!
- But try telling that to the poor innocents, men, women and beautiful young children who are murdered in these attacks.
- How does one honor people who terrorize innocents?
- In the ticking bomb instance, does the duty to protect thousands of innocents override the duty not to torture?
- This terrorism from below is undoubtedly evil, because it strikes at innocents to get back at an oppressor; but its evil is refracted through the objective reality of that oppressor.
- No other insurgency has been so entirely captivated by the sheer joy of deliberate violence against the innocent.
- As a test of the independence and honesty of the mass media, few tasks are more revealing than that of reporting our own government's responsibility for the killing of innocents abroad.
- For a killer with the blood of one or two or 10 innocents on his hands, such a punishment might reasonably be said to fit the crime.
- But innocents, including women and children, are killed.
- I have no sympathy for whatever cause they think they are fighting for when I read or hear of such senseless acts of murder against innocents.
- People who purposely attack innocents are not interested in freedom!
- Here we have on our doorstep a way of bringing to account those people who commit heinous crimes against our innocents.
- My concern is especially for the innocents who are maimed or killed though the irresponsible behaviour of the motorbike drivers causing the problems.
- As we seek God about ways to overcome the murder of innocents in our day, it is important to remember that those who are complicit in this tragedy are children of God no less than those who cherish all life.
- If the question is how to achieve a just goal while inflicting minimal damage, especially to innocents, the answer may sometimes be military action.
- But this was the mass murder of innocents - pulled off, incidentally, by non-poor young men who had not spent their lives scavenging for food scraps.
- 2.1the Innocents The young children killed by Herod after the birth of Jesus (Matt. 2:16).
Example sentencesExamples - Regardless of its condition problems, it nevertheless seems more than likely that both the Samson and Delilah and the Massacre of the Innocents preceded it, and that Jaffe's dating of the latter is too late.
- I think of The Slaughtering of the Innocents for example, that was one of the paintings there.
- In the lower register of the west bay there are traces of what was probably the Presentation in the Temple and, in the wider area above a small door, the Flight in to Egypt, followed by the Massacre of the Innocents in the vault above.
- Even so, as Rubens's Massacre of the Innocents was sold for 49.5 million [pounds sterling] two years ago, it ought to fetch a decent sum.
- In July, Rubens's masterpiece Massacre of the Innocents fetched a record stg £49.5 million.
- As with the Transfiguration and Hiroshima, the stories of the Sudan and the massacre of the innocents under Herod are now fused in my mind.
- We remember today, 0 Lord, the slaughter of the holy innocents of Bethlehem by King Herod.
- Ask most people today what he is known for and they will only mention the Massacre of the Innocents referred to in the Gospel of St Matthew.
- At the National Gallery a series of works is accumulating around the rediscovered Massacre of the Innocents, whose owner has generously agreed to place it on loan.
- Whether he is representing aggression, as in the Massacre of the Innocents, or strength subdued, as in Samson and Delilah, it is possible to use this exaggeration to make his point.
- Durer may have shown him what subject matter would be appreciated abroad, for the first of these engravings mentioned by Vasari is the Massacre of the Innocents, another study of nudes.
- There is no redemptive word in Herod's slaughter of the innocents and the inconsolable weeping of all the mothers of Bethlehem.
- It certainly helped to make sense of the whole tragic affair by recalling the slaughter of the holy innocents in Matthew 2.
- Some of the engravings, such as The Judgement of Paris and The Massacre of the Innocents are among Raphael's most fascinating master-pieces.
- You're very substantial acquirers, but do you still go after the really, really big pieces like the Rubens Massacre of the Innocents last year?
Origin Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin innocent- 'not harming', from in- 'not' + nocere 'to hurt'. Literally meaning ‘not harming’, innocent goes back to Latin in- ‘not’ and nocere ‘to hurt, injure’, which also lies behind nuisance (Late Middle English), noxious (Late Middle English) ‘harmful’, its opposite innocuous (late 16th century), and obnoxious (late 16th century).
Definition of innocent in US English: innocentadjectiveˈɪnəsəntˈinəsənt 1Not guilty of a crime or offense. the arbitrary execution of an innocent man he was innocent of any fraud Example sentencesExamples - Thirty-two years ago since I was called to the Bar and in 32 years I have never known anybody who pleaded guilty when they were innocent.
- In the US justice system if an innocent man found guilty at trial does not feign guilt and remorse he is likely to be mercilessly punished.
- They had to decide - on the basis of the legal arguments put forward - whether the defendant was guilty or innocent.
- If we did follow a policy of no victims' names, we'd be horribly unfair to the other party, the person who's picked up for the crime and who is innocent until proved guilty.
- The plaintiff was an innocent party and acted properly.
- It's true that DNA serves a useful purpose both in clearing innocent suspects and convicting guilty ones, but mass testing is troublesome.
- The innocent plaintiff is generally entitled to recover either expectation damages or reliance damages, but not both.
- Since they just know whether a defendant is guilty or innocent, why worry about niceties of evidence?
- Under Turkish law, everyone accused of a political or criminal offence is innocent until the crime is proved.
- But knowledge of your wife's pregnancy is not a felony offense yet so he did not plead innocent or not guilty to that.
- Let the people, and the world, judge who is right and who is wrong, who is guilty and who innocent.
- Everyone charged with a criminal offence shall be presumed innocent until proved guilty in accordance with law.
- It is worth embarrassing the accuser, to avoid the risk of a wrongful conviction and possibly spare an innocent defendant years in prison.
- However, the consequences of choosing the cheaper route cannot be to deprive an innocent plaintiff of the ability to prove its case.
- The court found that the repudiation by the owners was wrongful and that the plaintiff was the innocent party.
- Between the wrongful conviction of the innocent and the wrongful acquittal of the guilty, the choice should always be, without any hesitation, the latter.
- The judge pointed out that the absence of previous convictions did not of itself mean that a defendant was innocent anymore than the existence of previous convictions meant that a defendant was guilty.
- Until anyone is convicted of any crime, no matter how horrific the crime, they are innocent until proven guilty.
- In French trials, defendants do not plead guilty or innocent at the start of proceedings.
- There is no doubt that the people who died were innocent of any wrongdoing, at both tragedies, but there were people at both tragedies who were not innocent; and they were not all policemen.
Synonyms guiltless, guilt-free, not guilty, blameless, not to blame, in the clear, unimpeachable, irreproachable, above suspicion, beyond criticism, without fault, faultless - 1.1innocent ofpredicative Without experience or knowledge of.
a man innocent of war's cruelties Example sentencesExamples - The accepted view was that girls going to the marriage bed would be innocent of any sexual experience and would then gain it from their ‘considerate’ husbands.
- It is oblivious to the suffering of the Jews in Europe and to the Holocaust and innocent of any knowledge of pogroms or ghettos.
- She knows she is innocent of infernal rites or knowledge of Satan, but she also knows that she has seduced and killed with psychological precision.
- He was only about 23, and completely innocent of the wider world.
- 1.2innocent ofpredicative Without; lacking.
a street quite innocent of bookstores Example sentencesExamples - He suggested it was worrying to players to suspect they could inadvertently test positive for a banned substance, believing it to be innocent of such chemicals.
Synonyms free from, without, lacking, lacking in, empty of, clear of, unacquainted with, ignorant of, unaware of, unfamiliar with, untouched by
2attributive Not responsible for or directly involved in an event yet suffering its consequences. Example sentencesExamples - The Evening Press is calling on the people of York and North and East Yorkshire to help ease the suffering of innocent children in Iraq.
- But, with that intensity have come many and varied tantrums and out-bursts, often directed at wholly innocent bystanders.
- He knew that he was not responsible they were just innocent bystanders, he had done nothing wrong, what blame there was rested with other people.
- It really is remarkable that so many people have been so cavalier in considering our responsibility for the mass death of completely innocent and completely defenceless civilians.
- This campaign helps make a difference to ease the suffering of so many innocent people languishing in prison.
- This appeal raises the question of the availability of the remedy of subrogation as against an innocent third party purchaser.
- And for that world, it is now imperative that no further suffering is inflicted on innocent people.
- It didn't help, of course, not really, but at least there were no innocent bystanders around to suffer my invective.
- It is even possible that innocent bystanders may suffer casualties as a result.
- He apologized for hitting the wrong people, saying he didn't like getting innocent bystanders involved.
- For those involved in internal security operations, a ricochet striking an innocent bystander can have major political consequences.
- Much of the policing so far is unobjectionable in its goals and motivation but barely acceptable in the costs to innocent civilian bystanders.
- Remember Vietnam and the endless suffering of innocent people.
- This in fact means to struggle in the way of God by striving to do good, and to fight against only those who persecute and not by attacking innocent civilians or bystanders.
- Amnesty International is worried that the stun guns could ‘inflict pain and other suffering on innocent bystanders’.
- But Afghanistan is a hard land and the simple fact remains that those fighting for control of power rarely, if ever, bother about the suffering of innocent civilians.
- However, indefinite containment without a plan will only prolong the suffering for innocent Iraqis.
- As a rule such conflicts take the form of ‘contract killings’ of certain businessmen not involving the murder of innocent bystanders.
- However, we are now at war so we all need to face up to the reality and do as much as we can to ease the suffering of innocent civilians.
- We strongly condemn this operation that happened in Jerusalem today, especially that it was directed against innocent Israeli civilians.
3Free from moral wrong; not corrupted. Example sentencesExamples - But collective punishment of a whole people, especially of innocent children, is wrong.
- Tell me that television isn't a babysitter, and that I'm corrupting her innocent l'il mind.
- We may have lost this round, but we will continue to fight until an innocent girl is set free to live and enjoy her life.
- We know that it is wrong to destroy innocent life-forms.
- While we wait, one of us might write a speculative novel about a happy, innocent world mercifully free of insufferable literary talk.
- Babies are so beautiful, so innocent and not yet corrupted by our evil world full of shady characters.
- This Satanist conspiracy has as its agents all scientists and teachers who are actively trying to corrupt innocent children through public education.
- She was innocent, easily corrupted by Destiny's ways.
- Freeing an innocent girl from the many lies that had enveloped her life hardly fits the description of an evil act.
Synonyms virtuous, pure, sinless, free of sin, moral, decent, righteous, upright, wholesome, demure, modest, chaste, virginal, virgin, impeccable, pristine, spotless, stainless, unblemished, unsullied, incorrupt, uncorrupted, uncontaminated, undefiled - 3.1 Simple; naive.
she is a poor, innocent young creature Example sentencesExamples - Little did I know that it would corrupt my innocent little mind.
- She was innocent, simple, and, no matter what tales of travel she told, most likely lost.
- I was still naïve, innocent, and open in seventh grade.
- He was like a little child, too innocent, too naive.
- Now, call me naive and slightly innocent… but I figured this was a safe thing to do.
- It allows us to revisit a time in our past when life was simpler and more innocent.
- In the light of this, one might be inclined to say that she is naïve or innocent or foolhardy.
- She was simply too innocent, too naive to understand the look he had when he looked at her.
- He knows he is innocent and naïve - he doesn't always know what to do or say - but he believes it is important to be tough, and to belong.
- Perhaps it is the illusion of a simpler, more innocent time that draws people unexpectedly under its power.
- So when I saw how innocent, how naive he was, I took it upon myself to be his mentor.
- We grew up in a simpler, more innocent Ireland, a less-complicated Ireland.
- They stand quite capable of transporting a willing listener back to the simpler, more innocent days of techno: the early 1990s.
- Her eyes always had a way of making everything seem so sweet, so innocent, and so simple.
- You could believe he was a young cop because LAPD cops are big and strong and physical and he's also young and naïve and innocent and wide eyed.
- He is very innocent, even more naive than Sasha.
- Niceland revolves around Jed - a simple, innocent young man who very likely has some sort of developmental disorder.
- Eddie is an innocent, naïve and wide-eyed security guard inadvertently caught up in Gary and Frank's plans.
- To rot this thread just a little I really think we've done children a complete disservice by assuming them to be naive, innocent little creatures.
- You might think we are fools to be so naive, so innocent, so foolish.
Synonyms naive, ingenuous, trusting, trustful, over-trusting, credulous, unsuspicious, unsuspecting, unwary, unguarded, unsceptical, impressionable, gullible, easily deceived, easily taken in, easily led
4Not intended to cause harm or offense; harmless. Example sentencesExamples - The notion that linking to such material is an innocent mistake that anyone could make is one that, for all my charitable instincts, I find difficult to swallow.
- But where I think the learned judge has erred, is in making the possibility of such an innocent breach of the covenant a test of its validity.
- My innocent pleasure in those evenings shattered when a local gossip spread the word that I was on the prowl for other women's husbands, one in particular.
- As far as I'm concerned, this sounds like an innocent mistake.
- The mimicry programmes may be crude, but they are harmless and provide innocent fun to the audience.
- Ill-timed injury was partly to blame, but so was an innocent jest that went wrong.
- That seemingly innocent change has dramatic consequences for phenomenology.
- Offending drivers are to be pulled over as part of a pilot scheme and ‘given advice’ rather than booked, on the basis that it is pointless fining people for innocent mistakes.
- I remind you again, this is university - it seems preposterous to me that a seemingly innocent event such as carrying home a drunken friend could wind you up in so much trouble.
- We all agreed that the situation was purely innocent, harmless Internet fun.
- You quickly and publicly recognize that even if it was an innocent mistake, his credibility is now so damaged that he can no longer help the party by remaining in the leadership.
- So it could hardly have been an innocent mistake.
- A second change I have noticed has been the way in which people react to seemingly innocent events.
- The Republicans are acting like it was all an innocent mistake.
- When trainees have no riskfree way of getting adequate explanations, they may draw the wrong conclusions about entirely innocent research conduct.
- But their eagerly anticipated innocent pleasure has been jeopardised by the antics of a few selfish individuals on bikes.
- It was a simple question, an innocent question.
- I was present throughout it and that she should make up a story like that from such an innocent event is - I think it's disgraceful.
- It would seem the most innocent of Christmas stories.
- I'd like to believe that the Times just made an innocent mistake.
Synonyms harmless, innocuous, safe, non-injurious, unobjectionable, inoffensive, playful benign, non-cancerous, non-malignant, non-dangerous, harmless, not life-threatening
nounˈɪnəsəntˈinəsənt 1A pure, guileless, or naive person. she was an innocent compared with this man Example sentencesExamples - From the mouths of innocents and babes comes the truth.
- His wife and I are also uncertain about those young innocents you tutor.
- Worst of all, it seeps into the children at a young age, turning them from innocents into fanatics.
- Where race in America is concerned, there are no innocents.
- They are particularly impressive in their roles as the two younger girls - innocents who quickly come to grips with the nastiness of their new reality.
- Oh, out of the mouths of babes - there's always a giggle to be had from the young innocents.
- He says the Telegraph ignored important reasons to suppose that the girl, or more likely her parents, were not innocents abroad but downloaders on a big scale.
- They were innocents abroad who were only doing what their society expected of them.
- Let them know how you ruined a young innocent's life.
- But he also knew that God's mercy would protect the innocent.
- You and the babe are no innocents, and you well know that it is madness for you to expect any shelter from us.
- Balcon saw the story as a heartwarming tale of a young innocent's triumph over adversity, against the fantastic scenery of the African continent.
- but it very quickly becomes apparent that he is actually a pure innocent who means no harm by his break-ins.
- A kind-hearted innocent with a passion for the lives of the saints, Damian is playing in his own cardboard sanctuary when a bag falls from the heavens.
- My own mother was as naive a little innocent as any who had ever lived, had nothing more than a vague idea as to what the more persistent of her pursuers wanted.
- ‘There was a period when he really ran out of juice in terms of playing the young innocent,’ observes Stoff.
- Verloc is here a cinema owner instead of a tobacconist, and Stevie, the retarded child in the novel, is recast as merely a young innocent.
- Now it seems they weren't the only innocents abroad in Prague in the late '80s, early 90s.
- She was far from a naive young innocent; she knew exactly what was happening, what had been happening since last night.
- I said, you know, I'd like to bring my friend because I was still, you know, very much an innocent and kind of naive.
Synonyms unworldly person, naive person 2A person involved by chance in a situation, especially a victim of crime or war. they are prepared to kill or maim innocents in pursuit of a cause Example sentencesExamples - The idea that we might all agree to call the murder of thousands of innocents an evil act is obviously still too daring for the generation that is destined to replace us!
- Here we have on our doorstep a way of bringing to account those people who commit heinous crimes against our innocents.
- My concern is especially for the innocents who are maimed or killed though the irresponsible behaviour of the motorbike drivers causing the problems.
- As we seek God about ways to overcome the murder of innocents in our day, it is important to remember that those who are complicit in this tragedy are children of God no less than those who cherish all life.
- But this was the mass murder of innocents - pulled off, incidentally, by non-poor young men who had not spent their lives scavenging for food scraps.
- As a test of the independence and honesty of the mass media, few tasks are more revealing than that of reporting our own government's responsibility for the killing of innocents abroad.
- People who purposely attack innocents are not interested in freedom!
- In this instance, everyone had an aesthetic opinion, as if aesthetics had anything to do with the sacrificial slaughter of 6,000 innocents.
- If the question is how to achieve a just goal while inflicting minimal damage, especially to innocents, the answer may sometimes be military action.
- Iraq spells war, and war means the killing of the innocents, babies, the very young, the very old and those in between.
- How does one honor people who terrorize innocents?
- The intentional killing of civilians is proscribed, and so are military actions that show a gross disregard for the lives of innocents.
- But innocents, including women and children, are killed.
- The tsunami has evoked much commentary on the ‘meaning’ of the deaths of innocents and the malevolence of nature.
- I have no sympathy for whatever cause they think they are fighting for when I read or hear of such senseless acts of murder against innocents.
- But try telling that to the poor innocents, men, women and beautiful young children who are murdered in these attacks.
- In the ticking bomb instance, does the duty to protect thousands of innocents override the duty not to torture?
- This terrorism from below is undoubtedly evil, because it strikes at innocents to get back at an oppressor; but its evil is refracted through the objective reality of that oppressor.
- No other insurgency has been so entirely captivated by the sheer joy of deliberate violence against the innocent.
- For a killer with the blood of one or two or 10 innocents on his hands, such a punishment might reasonably be said to fit the crime.
- 2.1the Innocents The young children killed by Herod after the birth of Jesus (Matt. 2:16).
Example sentencesExamples - Ask most people today what he is known for and they will only mention the Massacre of the Innocents referred to in the Gospel of St Matthew.
- In the lower register of the west bay there are traces of what was probably the Presentation in the Temple and, in the wider area above a small door, the Flight in to Egypt, followed by the Massacre of the Innocents in the vault above.
- Durer may have shown him what subject matter would be appreciated abroad, for the first of these engravings mentioned by Vasari is the Massacre of the Innocents, another study of nudes.
- It certainly helped to make sense of the whole tragic affair by recalling the slaughter of the holy innocents in Matthew 2.
- You're very substantial acquirers, but do you still go after the really, really big pieces like the Rubens Massacre of the Innocents last year?
- There is no redemptive word in Herod's slaughter of the innocents and the inconsolable weeping of all the mothers of Bethlehem.
- In July, Rubens's masterpiece Massacre of the Innocents fetched a record stg £49.5 million.
- We remember today, 0 Lord, the slaughter of the holy innocents of Bethlehem by King Herod.
- As with the Transfiguration and Hiroshima, the stories of the Sudan and the massacre of the innocents under Herod are now fused in my mind.
- At the National Gallery a series of works is accumulating around the rediscovered Massacre of the Innocents, whose owner has generously agreed to place it on loan.
- Even so, as Rubens's Massacre of the Innocents was sold for 49.5 million [pounds sterling] two years ago, it ought to fetch a decent sum.
- I think of The Slaughtering of the Innocents for example, that was one of the paintings there.
- Some of the engravings, such as The Judgement of Paris and The Massacre of the Innocents are among Raphael's most fascinating master-pieces.
- Regardless of its condition problems, it nevertheless seems more than likely that both the Samson and Delilah and the Massacre of the Innocents preceded it, and that Jaffe's dating of the latter is too late.
- Whether he is representing aggression, as in the Massacre of the Innocents, or strength subdued, as in Samson and Delilah, it is possible to use this exaggeration to make his point.
Usage Innocent properly means ‘harmless,’ but it has long been extended in general language to mean ‘not guilty.’ The jury (or judge) in a criminal trial does not, strictly speaking, find a defendant ‘innocent.’ Rather, a defendant may be guilty or not guilty of the charges brought. In common use, however, owing perhaps to the concept of the presumption of innocence, which instructs a jury to consider a defendant free of wrongdoing until proven guilty on the basis of evidence, ‘not guilty’ and ‘innocent’ have come to be thought of as synonymous. See also plead Origin Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin innocent- ‘not harming’, from in- ‘not’ + nocere ‘to hurt’. |