guilty vs innocent
Definitions
adjective
- showing a sense of guilt
- responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act
Examples
A damning indictment for a Paul Bartel film, Lust in the Dust is found guilty of being bland and lame.
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.
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.
So far is he from admitting the possibility of any dissiliency between the Divine will and absolute right, that he turns the tables on his opponents, and classes among Atheists those of his contemporaries who maintain that God can command what is contrary to the intrinsic right; that He has no inclination to the good of his creatures; that He can justly doom an innocent being to eternal torments; or that whatever God wills is just because He wills it.
It was an innocent deception, meant as a joke.
