What's the difference between blameless and irreproachable?

Blameless


Definition:

  • (a.) Free from blame; without fault; innocent; guiltless; -- sometimes followed by of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The power behind the shot was impressive but the goalkeeper was not entirely blameless, having thrown both hands towards the ball to no effect.
  • (2) And religious guru Asaram Bapu suggested that the victim was not blameless, asking provocatively: "Can one hand clap?"
  • (3) The X-Factoring of everyday life allows a discriminatory system to see itself as blameless.
  • (4) The word "beard", after all, can mean something used to hide sexuality or infidelity, and when not worn for blameless religious reasons, it can be hard to trust.
  • (5) Scotland David Marshall 7 Made one straightforward save and blameless for England’s opener, then replaced at half-time as Craig Gordon made his emotional return Steven Whitaker 6 Dispossessed by Welbeck early on, leading to a decent England chance.
  • (6) So next Sunday, he's going to murder blameless Father James as an enforced act of penance.
  • (7) It was only when she discovered her phone had been hacked on an industrial scale (she changed her number three times in three months, but it never did any good) that she realised all her nearest and dearest were blameless.
  • (8) We now know, for instance, that one newspaper employed at least four private investigators — one of them fresh from seven years in jail for blackmail and perverting the course of justice – to systemically hack, track, blag and otherwise pry into the private lives of numerous people in public life — from royalty, through politics to celebrities and blameless people who just happened to be caught up in the news, such as the relatives of the two Soham girls murdered by Ian Huntley.
  • (9) Yet the IOC instead attacked the World Anti-Doping Agency, which is not blameless but at least commissioned McLaren’s report.
  • (10) However, once again, Shore's blameless pursuit of the things he believed in worked out accidentally as good career politics.
  • (11) Some blameless little service – say Burma's hour of sustenance a day – is said to be in danger after 70 glorious years of truth-telling.
  • (12) All these reservations show how technically blameless future clinical trials have to be.
  • (13) Or are blameless British towns from Wrexham to Wroxham even now ringed by foreign vigilantes in makeshift trenches with knives between their teeth and murder in their heart?
  • (14) First, alcoholics are morally blameworthy, their condition the result of their own misconduct; such blameworthiness disqualifies alcoholics in unavoidable competition for organs with others who are equally sick but blameless.
  • (15) The decision to include childhood photographs in her memoir seems like a plea to remember that Dylan was once blameless, even cute.
  • (16) Obama says he won't mention future appointments but then goes on to praise and defend Susan Rice, saying that the UN ambassador was blameless regarding Benghazi.
  • (17) 75% were blameless and 68% of these were attacked outside the region where they lived.
  • (18) I am not blameless in the furthering of this terrible culture: among photos of what I'm reading and street scenes, my face pops up alarmingly regularly.
  • (19) If all rules of veterinary art, however, had fully been observed during rectal exploration, the proof of blamelessness for the investigator is very difficult to be obtained, when a perforation or a rupture has resulted.
  • (20) A film, according to this logic, exists only in the eye or mind of the beholder; Haneke, preserving his own moral superiority, takes no responsibility if someone sees Funny Games as a snuff movie or The Piano Teacher as pornography, and he remains blameless if we view Amour as a chilly experiment that vivisects its elderly actors.

Irreproachable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not reproachable; above reproach; not deserving reproach; blameless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If someone wants to be technically irreproachable, he needs to get together most of the existent structures to have a performant material and as much and efficient staff as possible.
  • (2) Our behaviour has been irreproachable too: we have had only two or three yellow cards in all our games.
  • (3) In a statement, the ministry said the public finances directorate was examining the tax situation of all government members as a matter of "routine", with the aim of "ensuring that the position of every government member is irreproachable".
  • (4) About one fifth of the children shows an irreproachable mouth hygiene.
  • (5) But public understand humility as admirable, listen to the multifaceted strong message.” Last month, Murdoch said Carson was “maybe the one to beat”, calling him “irreproachable on background, achievements, character, vision”.
  • (6) Back in Rome, the agriculture minister, Mario Catania, declared in irreproachably technocratic fashion that his new deputy would "bring value added".
  • (7) After decades of political corruption on both right and left, Sarkozy won the last election promising a France that would be morally "irreproachable".
  • (8) The issue is all the more pressing for Fillon because, despite 35 years in politics including five years as prime minister, he is styling himself as an anti-system candidate, promoting himself as an honest, austere and “irreproachable” antidote to years of corruption scandals on the French right.
  • (9) In a sign of the anger among Mousavi's supporters, they chanted "the president is committing a crime and the supreme leader is supporting him", highly inflammatory language in a regime where the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, is considered irreproachable.
  • (10) When he was elected in 2007, Sarkozy had promised an "irreproachable" France, presenting himself as a leader who would clean up corrupt French politics.
  • (11) "Kate seems to have been selected for her role of princess because she was irreproachable: as painfully thin as anyone could wish, without quirks, without oddities, without the risk of the emergence of character."
  • (12) Early operation, an irreproachable operating tactic (orthopedic table, ventral decubitus, posterior approach), an immediate stable and solid synthesis and a deferred load bearing (beyond 6 months) should reduce the risk of femoral head necrosis to a minimum.
  • (13) Irreproachable on background, achievements, character, vision.
  • (14) To obtain the best results the surgical act must be performed irreproachably and the patient must comply with protection prescriptions.
  • (15) She was excoriated last year for a speech at the British Museum dealing with the media perception of royal women, in which she described Kate Middleton as "selected for her role of princess because she was irreproachable: as painfully thin as anyone could wish, without quirks, without oddities, without the risk of the emergence of character".
  • (16) The newest tupes of mechanical prosthetic valves have been shown to be long-lasting and haemodynamically irreproachable.

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