(a.) Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy.
(a.) Morally free from guilt; guiltless; not tainted with sin; pure; upright.
(a.) Free from the guilt of a particular crime or offense; as, a man is innocent of the crime charged.
(a.) Simple; artless; foolish.
(a.) Lawful; permitted; as, an innocent trade.
(a.) Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture; as, innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation.
(n.) An innocent person; one free from, or unacquainted with, guilt or sin.
(n.) An unsophisticated person; hence, a child; a simpleton; an idiot.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the trial Arena admitted involvement in criminal activity, but insisted he was innocent of the murders.
(2) In the UK, Coca-Cola owns Innocent smoothies while PepsiCo has Tropicana.
(3) But to treat a mistake as an automatic disqualification for advancement – even as heinous a mistake as presiding over a botched operation that resulted in the killing of an innocent man – could be depriving organisations, and the country, of leaders who have been tested and will not make the same mistake again.
(4) "They were not innocent, non-political children; these were young people who worked to actively uphold multicultural values.
(5) But Gashi told the Guardian: "I am responsible for innocent people going to jail.
(6) Drones are not only provocative and illegal in international law but have also led to the killing of many innocent civilians in other countries that has had a serious impact on how the US is perceived in the region.
(7) Dr Bhambra sustained the most dreadful life-changing injuries during a sustained racist attack on an innocent man, a member of a caring profession.” There was applause from the public gallery as the verdict was returned.
(8) But there is a difference between the loss of innocence and the growth of darkness.
(9) I do remain limited at present by what I can say due to the ongoing referral to the Criminal Cases Review Commission and whilst I continue to maintain my innocence, I wish to make it clear that I wholeheartedly apologise for the effects that night in Rhyl has had on many people, not least the woman concerned.” The 26-year-old also sought to disassociate himself for the first time from those using the internet to hound his victim.
(10) Maybe this will be increasing the frequency of patrols, or going to places that the Obama administration has been hesitant to go – such as actually undertaking a non-innocent passage military patrols within 12 miles of an artificial island.
(11) George, a loner who was said to have stalked and photographed hundreds of women, always maintained his innocence.
(12) Whitson also had strong words for Missouri Governor Jay Nixon , who has called for the “vigorous prosecution” of Wilson, calling such comments “ludicrous” and contrary to the spirit of “innocent until proven guilty”.
(13) And in today’s attack it was mostly innocent children.
(14) In its statement on Saturday, the ministry of foreign affairs accused the French journalist of “pouring fuel on the fire of terrorism and the brutal killing of innocent civilians”.
(15) However, as we watch Blade Runner , Deckard doesn’t feel like a replicant; he is dour and unengaged, but lacks his victims’ detached innocence, their staccato puzzlement at their own untrained feelings.
(16) Since the allegations became public, fans have taken to holding up homemade signs at Florida State games: "We Support Famous Jameis", "Jameis is Innocent," and "In Jameis Christ We Pray".
(17) Deschamps said: “It’s not that I don’t have confidence in Morgan, I know what he can do, but before making final decisions [on the Euro 2016 squad] it’s important that N’Golo comes with us to get more answers.” Benzema’s lawyer has previously protested his innocence, saying: “He played no part, I repeat no part, in any blackmail or attempted blackmail,” but Deschamps has passed up the opportunity to bring him back into the squad, perhaps feeling the political heat.
(18) Bryant told ESPN : "We were always confident that Chris was innocent but we just couldn't figure out what had happened.
(19) In the end, after a life of serial duplicity, innocent and otherwise, he found serenity.
(20) We can’t do this on our own.” He compared the company to smoothie maker Innocent, whose founders also decided to sell up after a blockbuster offer.
Prelapsarian
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) It would be imbued with nostalgia for the prelapsarian America, and it would capture the sense of community that Walt Disney spent his whole life trying to distil, bottle and sell.
(2) But, as you brace yourself to elbow your way back through Heathrow terminal 3, you harbour niggling prelapsarian feelings about what you've just left behind.
(3) This happy excursus appears in The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life (Yale, £25) , in a chapter entitled "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction of the Romantic Self", and is preliminary to, among numerous matters, a consideration of why the name Lucifer is not mentioned in Paradise Lost , and why Milton should have chosen not to give us in his great poem an account of Satan in his prelapsarian, luciferous state.
(4) Thereby, the tale implies, he would restore the music to its prelapsarian state of acoustic purity.
(5) It is tempting to treat the Ukip MEP Godfrey Bloom and Gregory Lauder-Frost of Traditional Britain as fleshly but similarly risible lieutenants in the prelapsarian dreams of Spode's Black Shorts.
(6) As the Guardian reported at the time: "Instead of finding some prelapsarian wilderness, she and a colleague were confronted with the horror of hundreds of albatrosses lying on the sand.
(7) The prologue, which began an hour before the show itself, was a tableau vivant of rural English life in the 18th century: a prelapsarian age of cows, goats, geese, sheep, a shire horse, a bank of wild flowers, a mill race, a Cotswold stone cottage with smoking chimneys, a wheatfield stippled with poppies, a wooden barn, a trio of maypoles, a kitchen garden, rustic games of cricket and football, a cluster of bee hives, picnics, a sturdy oak tree, fluffy white clouds tethered to squads of minders and slowly circling the arena.
(8) It is individual Asian governments that have insisted on taking it slowly, not a handful of European nostalgists yearning for a prelapsarian age.
(9) Back in the prelapsarian days of 1999, when Tony Blair went to Chicago to evangelise for liberal interventionism, the response to this closed door would have been to suggest that the rest of the world, led by the west, should bust its way in.
(10) In the wake of the bombing of Hiroshima, the remote island must have seemed like a prelapsarian retreat from the horrors of modernity.
(11) It is a prelapsarian shopping bubble, Wisteria Lane with shops instead of houses and celebrity shoppers such as the Middleton clan, Samantha Cameron and Claudia Schiffer.
(12) San Francisco has long strained under the sheer fondness roundly felt for it, or at least for an idea of it, never quite living up to how people imagine or half-remember it in various supposedly prelapsarian states of 20, 40, 60 years ago.
(13) A t the end of each day Oscar Pistorius walks back into prelapsarian fame.
(14) All the memories are not brutal: there is an extended, evocative meditation, likely to become famous, describing childhood summers on an antebellum Southern farm, a memory of prelapsarian happiness eating green apples and watermelons; and a poignant tale of Jane Clemens teaching her son to consider a young slave boy's feelings.
(15) Not being Margaret Thatcher was a key part of Theresa May’s unexpected pitch for the Tory leadership in the now distant, prelapsarian times that began on 11 July 2016 and ended abruptly on 8 June 2017 .