blame·less

(blām′lĭs)

adj.

Free of blame or guilt; innocent.

blame′less·ly adv.

blame′less·ness n.

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blameless

(ˈbleɪmlɪs)

adj

free from blame; innocent

ˈblamelessly adv

ˈblamelessness n

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.

blameless - free of guilt; not subject to blame; "has lived a blameless life"; "of irreproachable character"; "an unimpeachable reputation"

inculpable, irreproachable, unimpeachable

clean-handed, guiltless, innocent - free from evil or guilt; "an innocent child"; "the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty"

blameless

adjective innocent, clear, clean, upright, stainless, honest, immaculate, impeccable, virtuous, faultless, squeaky-clean, unblemished, unsullied, uninvolved, unimpeachable, untarnished, above suspicion, irreproachable, guiltless, unspotted, unoffending a blameless life
responsible, guilty, to blame, at fault, culpable, censurable, reprovable

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blameless

adjective

1. Free from guilt or blame:

faultless, guiltless, harmless, innocent, irreproachable, lily-white, unblamable.

Slang: clean.

Idiom: in the clear.

2. Beyond reproach:

exemplary, good, irreprehensible, irreproachable, lily-white, unblamable.

Translations

بَريء، طاهِر

bezúhonnýnevinný

pletfri

tadellos

irréprochable

saklaus; ámælislaus

innocente

uklanderlig uskyldig

bezúhonný

kabahatsızsuçsuz

无可责难的

blameless

[ˈbleɪmlɪs] ADJ (= innocent) → inocente; (= irreproachable) → intachable

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

blameless

[ˈbleɪmləs] adj → irréprochable

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

blameless

adj → schuldlos; life → untadelig

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

blameless

[ˈbleɪmlɪs] adj → irreprensibile

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

blame

(bleim) verb

1. to consider someone or something responsible for something bad. I blame the wet road for the accident.

2. to find fault with (a person). I don't blame you for wanting to leave.

noun

the responsibility (for something bad). He takes the blame for everything that goes wrong.

ˈblameless adjective

innocent. a blameless life.

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Because thou art gentle and of upright character, thou sayest: "Blameless are they for their small existence." But their circumscribed souls think: "Blamable is all great existence."

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Putting things at the worst, at all events, as in meditation I so often did, any clouding of their innocence could only be-- blameless and foredoomed as they were--a reason the more for taking risks.

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Candor will oblige us to admit that even such men may be actuated by upright intentions; and it cannot be doubted that much of the opposition which has made its appearance, or may hereafter make its appearance, will spring from sources, blameless at least, if not respectable -- the honest errors of minds led astray by preconceived jealousies and fears.

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Darcy's conduct in it less than infamous, was capable of a turn which must make him entirely blameless throughout the whole.

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He was so honest and conscientious, that, if he had been only a private man, his life would probably have been blameless and happy.

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Archer entirely approved of family solidarity, and one of the qualities he most admired in the Mingotts was their resolute championship of the few black sheep that their blameless stock had produced.

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For my part, I should be sorry to think that there was nothing between Anthony and Cleopatra but an economic situation; and it will require a great deal more evidence than is ever likely to be available, thank God, to persuade me that Tiberius was as blameless a monarch as King George V.

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She did not know then that it was Love who had come to her briefly, as in a dream before awaking, with the hues of morning on his wings-- that it was Love to whom she was sobbing her farewell as his image was banished by the blameless rigor of irresistible day.

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If Nicholas be not always found to be blameless or agreeable, he is not always intended to appear so.

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