(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.
Unimpeachable
Definition:
(a.) Not impeachable; not to be called in question; exempt from liability to accusation; free from stain, guilt, or fault; irreproachable; blameless; as, an unimpeachable reputation; unimpeachable testimony.
Example Sentences:
(1) Saleh Abdeslam may be a terrorist, but his trial must be unimpeachable | Mary Dejevsky Read more He is fighting extradition to France, but could be surrendered to Paris under the terms of a European arrest warrant.
(2) They were of questionable vintage but against a backdrop of spongy-white plaster and dark wood beams, their buccaneering credentials appeared unimpeachable.
(3) I’ve never done anything extraordinary,” says Finch in one of several brazen acts of self-exposition, “I think that’s why I play video games, ’cos they’re more interesting than my real life.” The words ring especially hollow when spoken by Gervais, whose limited emotional range and rising celebrity profile have transformed him into a sort of modern-day Hugh Grant (stay with me) whose audience appeal is apparently so unimpeachable that his flat presence – much less his incongruous Englishness – is considered no obstacle.
(4) U Htin Kyaw, just nominated by the NLD for president, is a stellar choice, well-respected, unimpeachable integrity, and a very nice man,” tweeted Thant Myint-U, a historian and the grandson of the former UN secretary general U Thant.
(5) He has somehow managed to seem wildly out of step with prevalent trends, even as his classic albums became an unimpeachable touchstone for a variety of new artists.
(6) Eyebrows were raised when Sisi decided to allow Islamists to enter the Egyptian military's officer training academy — when it had always insisted before that cadets were unimpeachably apolitical.
(7) Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps, Ernest Bevin – these were political giants, men of unimpeachable integrity and manifestly driven by a high sense of duty.
(8) The OBR, headed by Sir Alan Budd – a top-class economist with an unimpeachable record of public service – is designed to prevent chancellors from tweaking Treasury forecasts in order to justify tax and spending decisions.
(9) He said he would create a method of verification by an "unimpeachable, impartial" individual or body that would certify that the new press regulator was compliant with Leveson in all respects.
(10) First up is his proposal to sell advertising space to corporations , which wouldn't in any way compromise the impartiality and unimpeachable integrity of Hertfordshire constabulary.
(11) Steven Spielberg's movie about Lincoln's constitutional dark night of the soul in the civil war – a choice to end slavery or end the bloodshed – leads the field with 12 Oscar nominations and offers Academy voters something reassuringly mainstream and essentially, unimpeachably patriotic.
(12) They may even oppose Corbyn on the unimpeachably anti-Tory grounds that he is guaranteeing a decade of Tory rule.
(13) Mr Heydon’s conduct has been unimpeachable,” Brandis told Sky News on Sunday.
(14) Sade, for instance, is relentlessly obscene, while Sacher-Masoch is unimpeachable.
(15) Not one Liberal Democrat MP has sought to follow David Davis and become an unimpeachable defender of civil liberties.
(16) In times of national crises,” Hetherington and Nelson wrote , “Americans rally to the president as the anthropomorphic symbol of national unity – a kind of living flag.” In some ways, our national nightmare would be a Trump dream: a period where his acclaim is absolute and unimpeachable.
(17) Leading the BBC – a job that mixes business with politics like no other – requires unimpeachable credentials, so Fairhead's candidature put her immediately under scrutiny.
(18) Rolling Stone described her new studio album, Soldier of Love, as "unimpeachably excellent" while Billboard said: "It's been 10 years since Sade released an album, but be forewarned – the giant has awoken."
(19) But his lesson, that if you wish to promote public austerity then the message comes best from someone of unimpeachable personal frugality, has been lost on David Cameron.
(20) The below is according to Marca, so must, of course, be of unimpeachable truth.