(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.
Reproof
Definition:
(n.) Refutation; confutation; contradiction.
(n.) An expression of blame or censure; especially, blame expressed to the face; censure for a fault; chiding; reproach.
Example Sentences:
(1) If the stadium gets built the way it is, Tokyo will surely be burdened with a gigantic white elephant.” Isozaki’s reproof came after Japanese officials said they would scale back the building’s size, bowing to growing criticism that it was too big and costly.
(2) But in fact, Zuckerberg’s reproof was directed at another board member, Marc Andreessen, for an ill-advised series of tweets that appeared to express nostalgia for colonial rule of India.
(3) Any follower of the atrocity-ridden war in Syria will accept that Assad’s military machine deserved more than verbal reproof for its continued use of chemical weapons.
(4) When compared with the no-comment group, subjects in the reproof condition showed response increments over baseline performance (p less than .05).
(5) The performance of 60 elderly volunteers (mean age = 74.5 years) on two cancellation tasks was examined under one of three experimental conditions: social praise, social reproof, or no comment.
(6) Furthermore he explains how the revision reproof is to represented to the appeal court in case of violation.
(7) I realised I was being more tolerated than appreciated, and it came to me that repeating such a statement – showing off in public what’s done in private – would always bring reproof.
(8) Results are interpreted in terms of the possible negative reinforcement, challenge, or informational properties of reproof.