guilty vs innocent
Definitions
adjective
- showing a sense of guilt
- responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act
Examples
I'm afraid he is guilty of a good deal of invention.
Civilian life affords us the luxury of a good deal of deontology — better to let ten guilty men go free, and so on.
A damning indictment for a Paul Bartel film, Lust in the Dust is found guilty of being bland and lame.
Definitions
adjective
- lacking intent or capacity to injure
- free from sin
- lacking in sophistication or worldliness
- not knowledgeable about something specified
- completely wanting or lacking
noun
- a person who lacks knowledge of evil
Examples
Bounties were paid right across a banking sector whose incompetence threw thousands of innocents into jeopardy.
It is common to see the book of Job as wrestling with the problem of innocent suffering.
What shall I do when a mad dog attacks an innocent child?
