How To Use Blameless In A Sentence
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It was for them a blameless activity, and involved a charming motif of the new art.
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For loudly booing when the blameless singers and the faultless musicians were doing their best?
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Nor does it make for efficiency as the courts would be cluttered with prosecutions of blameless individuals who would ultimately be dealt with by means of an absolute discharge.
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In every wise blameless, till eld took from him eftsoon
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats
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These were all blameless cases of unintentional and unwitting mental telegraphy, I judge.
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While a propagandist only presents one side, the fact is that no one side is seamless or blameless.
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But the banks are not entirely blameless victims in such crime.
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He had the feeling that years of composure and blamelessness were thrown out.
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He faded into insensibility, and passed from his blameless life on 12 February 1804, unaccompanied by his former intellectual powers.
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The reports were thoroughgoing and, as pieces of journalism, blameless.
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Remembering how white soldiers from eastern cities took the skin of a native chief for a trophy of victory, and recalling the fiendish glee of Mandanes over a victim, I can only conclude that neither race may blamelessly point the finger of reproach at the other.
Lords of the North
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None of us is blameless in this matter.
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Liberality, righteous conduct, rendering assistance to relatives, and performance of blameless deeds - this is the highest blessing.
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But the only Olympic faces to take the flak were the entirely blameless and entirely wonderful volunteers.
Times, Sunday Times
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How could I value the life or suffering of a criminal above that of my blameless family?
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'That is indeed unfortunate; but if you are really blameless, cannot you undeceive them?'
Chapter 15
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But we, too, have a long, long tradition of politically-active people and blameless joes who walked down the wrong street being harassed and beaten-up by the security forces.
Do new post-pantsbomber TSA security directives kill inflight WiFi? (UPDATED) Boing Boing
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That is not to say he is entirely blameless for this mess, though.
The Sun
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Farmers are always getting the blame for being unkind to the Environment, where in the majority of cases, the farmers are blameless.
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It fosters an equanimity that results in "blamelessness," feeling comfortable in any setting or with any group without the need to find fault or blame.
Management-Issues : News
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Given a decent education, a fair fortune, a good-looking and vigorous husband to whom she had taken a fancy, and no special temptation, and she might have been a blameless, merry, "sonsy" _commere_, and have died in an odor of very reasonable sanctity.
The Celibates
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This requires the existence of a just culture, one possessing a collective understanding of where the line should be drawn between blameless and blameworthy actions.
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Mirah's farewell look and words -- their exquisite appealingness stirring in him that deep-laid care for womanhood which had begun when his own lip was like a girl's -- her hold on his feeling had helped him to be blameless in word and deed under the difficult circumstances we know of.
Daniel Deronda
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blamelessness" which grew more trying still in Tennyson's King.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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He is the Son of God, without sin and totally blameless.
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He took into account the defendant's age, his family problems, his previously blameless life and the fact that the money had been returned.
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Neither booksellers nor librarians are entirely blameless.
The Times Literary Supplement
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It was mainly my fault, but she wasn't entirely blameless.
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But the banks are not entirely blameless victims in such crime.
Times, Sunday Times
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It has lived a blameless life in a field of joy, innocent of pesticides and artificial fertilisers.
Times, Sunday Times
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This man lived a reasonably blameless life on an isolated steading on the boundary of two parishes.
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I am not entirely blameless.
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So far this week, I've led an almost entirely blameless existence.
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The poet uses the infinitive ‘to frame’ in the previous line in connection with the knight's blameless life, indicating his development of this character as a demonstrative or pictorial representative of virtue.
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The one action for which I cannot hold Administration officials blameless is their distortion of intelligence estimates when making the public case for going to war.
Spies, Lies, and Weapons: What Went Wrong
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The report proves he is absolutely blameless.
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They are, in all but one salient way, blameless trousers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The US itself, of course, is not entirely blameless in trading matters.
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Less than a day's batting for 20 wickets on a blameless pitch.
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To her legions of adoring fans, she is faultless, blameless and unbeatable.
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Solomon, in his seedy clothes and long white locks, seemed to be luring that decent company by the magic scream of his fiddle -- luring discreet matrons in turban-shaped caps, nay, Mrs. Crackenthorp herself, the summit of whose perpendicular feather was on a level with the Squire's shoulder -- luring fair lasses complacently conscious of very short waists and skirts blameless of front-folds -- luring burly fathers in large variegated waistcoats, and ruddy sons, for the most part shy and sheepish, in short nether garments and very long coat-tails.
Silas Marner
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The beauty of the accused, her undeniable charm of manner, the hitherto blameless character of her life, all tended to make the public take violent sides either for or against her, and the usual budget of amateur correspondence, suggestions, recriminations and advice poured into the chief's office in titanic proportions.
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard
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The police should be ashamed they put these blameless people and their families through it.
The Sun
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To her legions of adoring fans, she is faultless, blameless and unbeatable.
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They are, in all but one salient way, blameless trousers.
Times, Sunday Times
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These were all blameless cases of unintentional and unwitting mental telegraphy, I judge.
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The US itself, of course, is not entirely blameless in trading matters.
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In this upside-down world picture, nobody is too discredited to be fashioned into a hero and nobody too blameless to be set up as a villain.
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He basically tried to change the subject to the defendant's otherwise blameless life.
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It is a common misconception that, if swing does damage, the pitch must be blameless.
Times, Sunday Times
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He threw his bike aside and launched into a tirade against the blameless ground crew.
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And there I was worrying that I'd needlessly insulted this blameless woman.
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It was quite unthinkable to contemplate letting the title pass to a cousin, it seemed, however blameless and worthy he might be.
Ungrateful Governess
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For decades, murder between mobsters has been regarded as a crime in which the victim was not entirely blameless.
Times, Sunday Times
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I know it may shock you to know I haven't led a blameless life, that my past is not a blissful stroll in the park on a sunny day with bluebirds winging in a cloudless sky.
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The unattractive feature of this approach is that it will sometimes involve punishing the blameless.
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Millions of blameless people will be subjected to unnecessary delays.
Times, Sunday Times
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It has lived a blameless life in a field of joy, innocent of pesticides and artificial fertilisers.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am sorry that they will not apologise for the unnecessary anxiety they are causing blameless people.
Times, Sunday Times
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For what it's worth, he did not play badly yesterday, and was blameless for all three goals.
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This man lived a reasonably blameless life on an isolated steading on the boundary of two parishes.
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It has lived a blameless life in a field of joy, innocent of pesticides and artificial fertilisers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whereas with, say, food allergies, or depression, or many other things people I know deal with, there is less the bolt from the blue -- even if we stipulate that it is the blameless bolt -- and more the gradual awareness that not all is well, or at least not as well as it could be.
Mrissa: Hollywood broken leg theory
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All Canadians must make it unambiguous to our affirmative action, extreme left-wing bimble who lives in the Governor General †™ s mansion, and the other affirmative action, far-left bimble on the Supreme Court that they can not unilaterally affect the values of civilized Canadians who don†™ t revere murderers who butcher blameless living babies.
Abortion And The Order Of Canada « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
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Timothy (though not having the name) exercised the power at Ephesus then, which bishops in the modern sense more recently exercised. blameless -- "unexceptionable"; giving no just handle for blame. husband of one wife -- confuting the celibacy of Rome's priesthood.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The root of contemporary (as distinguished from "modern") malady is the implication of the masses (in a sense, all of us -- no matter how personally blameless) in the "sexual revolution".
Ideology and the destruction of body and soul
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Some have heard that he went thence to Augusta; others aver that in their opinion, he travelled away down into the low country "whar they call sop, gravy; again, some say that a man very much like him was seen travelling in the Cherokee country; and not a few contend that he married, and settled in an adjoining eastern county, leading a quiet and blameless life for many years.
Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor. With a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley
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It was for them a blameless activity, and involved a charming motif of the new art.
Times, Sunday Times
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Until recently I thought I was living a blameless life as a caring global citizen.
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The title of his film comes from Alexander Pope's poem ‘Eloisa to Abelard’, and the stanza goes: ‘How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
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Periwinkles feed blamelessly by scraping detritus and organic matter off almost bare rock.
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They shredded the reputation of a brilliant and blameless man.
Times, Sunday Times
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The police are not always entirely blameless in these matters.
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It was the blamelessness of Christ that made his execution into murder.
Beginner’s Grace
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Only at the cost of self-deception," he wrote, can observant Christians preserve a facade of "private blamelessness clean from the stains of responsible action in the world.
Belief In Action
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How can you take pleasure, whenever it is possible, in casting such slurs upon a woman, whom but yesterday you called blameless, charming, peerless?
Cleopatra — Volume 01
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I know it may shock you to know I haven't led a blameless life, that my past is not a blissful stroll in the park on a sunny day with bluebirds winging in a cloudless sky.
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Given a decent education, a fair fortune, a good-looking and vigorous husband to whom she had taken a fancy, and no special temptation, and she might have been a blameless, merry, "sonsy" _commere_, and have died in an odor of very reasonable sanctity.
The Celibates
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For loudly booing when the blameless singers and the faultless musicians were doing their best?
Times, Sunday Times
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I have led a blameless life.
What the Bee Knows - reflections on myth, symbol and story
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lead a blameless life evermore
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While some of the defendants led blameless lives, some used and even dealt in drugs.
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she had lived blamelessly until she met this man
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They are, no matter what happened in this case, blameless here.
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It is a common misconception that, if swing does damage, the pitch must be blameless.
Times, Sunday Times
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Do not kill”; for this is the childlike blamelessness which is proposed to us, if we would enter the kingdom of heaven.
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Mark
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Now that he is sending minatory letters to blameless booksellers, this verdict may have to be reviewed.
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I suffer two immediate and competing reactions: the first is a profound fear, the second a strong sense of blamelessness.
Tim Dowling: A writer wronged
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He is described as an upright, blameless, and very very wealthy man.
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Neither booksellers nor librarians are entirely blameless.
The Times Literary Supplement
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I am not entirely blameless.
Times, Sunday Times
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Do they have warm feelings for people so confident in their blamelessness that they brag about "never" having behaved "inappropriately" with "anyone" ever?
Herman Cain and the third-person presser | Ana Marie Cox
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-- 'Twas a lord unpeered, every way blameless, till age had broken
Beowulf
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The US itself, of course, is not entirely blameless in trading matters.
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It was for them a blameless activity, and involved a charming motif of the new art.
Times, Sunday Times
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Everyone knew he was a gorgeous, blameless young man who would have been an asset to society.
Times, Sunday Times
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has lived a blameless life
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To say no more about Arthur's technical "blamelessness," he has, by the coming of Lancelot, ceased to be altogether heroic.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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Now, I've hardly lived a blameless life when it's come to pyrotechnics, but this kind of rampant idiocy really has got me angry.
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Sphinx: ‘But furthermore (she killed) noble Haemon, the dear son of blameless Creon, the comeliest and loveliest of boys.’
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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My position isn't that GRRM is 'blameless' - on the contrary I have said several times the PR/communication side of things could have been better-handled - but that the decisions taken each step of the way have generally been taken for the best of reasons.
Wertzone Classics: A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
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He has told his fellow coaches that they have to be blameless, beyond reproach in everything they do.
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Millions of blameless people will be subjected to unnecessary delays.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was mainly my fault, but she wasn't entirely blameless.
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Fabio knew a blameless life when he saw one, but he nevertheless wondered if Rosa was in some sort of trouble.
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Five boys started gabbling at him at the same time, all trying to convince him that they were blameless with different varieties of the same excuse.
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Not saying drivers are blameless but no property rights have been infringed here - if the towie didn't follow the letter then harden up and pay up.
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The more they know, the farther away they move from blamelessness.
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These myths of the emperor's blamelessness were designed to maintain national unity.
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Afterward, he protested his own blamelessness to a reporter from the local newspaper.
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Randy was right, he would never lie, that would be a sin, and he must live blamelessly, but he was wrong, those people he had killed had been devils, and it had been his job to do so.
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A fair bit of my wardrobe is made up of blameless, knee-length pencil skirts.
Times, Sunday Times
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People can be guilty of the most terrible crimes and still feel themselves to be blameless.
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'tuism'; -- B. is one who, feeling the ill effects of a contrary habit, contemplates sobriety with blameless envy.
Literary Remains, Volume 1
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I have led a blameless life.
What the Bee Knows - reflections on myth, symbol and story
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It was mainly my fault, but she wasn't entirely blameless.
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In this I am not blameless either because, as a media adviser, I have encouraged this approach when it suited me.
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Everyone knew he was a gorgeous, blameless young man who would have been an asset to society.
Times, Sunday Times
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The police should be ashamed they put these blameless people and their families through it.
The Sun
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Sir Hugh could now repair the omissions of his youth; but he was willing to console his want of knowledge, and sooth his mortifications; and while he grieved for his bodily infirmities, and pitied his mental repinings, he considered his idea as not illaudable, though injudicious, and in favour of its blamelessness, forgave its absurdity.
Camilla
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Old Solomon, in his seedy clothes and long white locks, seemed to be luring that decent company by the magic scream of his fiddle -- luring discreet matrons in turban shaped caps, nay, Mrs. Crackenthorp herself, the summit of whose perpendicular feather was on a level with the Squire's shoulder -- luring fair lasses complacently conscious of very short waists and skirts blameless of front - folds -- luring burly fathers in large variegated waist-coats, and ruddy sons, for the most part shy and sheepish, in short nether garments and very long coat-tails.
Silas Marner (1885)
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None of us is entirely blameless in this matter.
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That is not to say he is entirely blameless for this mess, though.
The Sun
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Rational Review
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There were other siblings involved but they will remain blameless as they [...]
One of these days… » 2004 » January » 19
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Then maybe someday, I will be able to rest, knowing that others are aware of my son's blamelessness.
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I know it may shock you to know I haven't led a blameless life, that my past is not a blissful stroll in the park on a sunny day with bluebirds winging in a cloudless sky.
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But if he repels the violence in a moderate way, it will be a lawful defence: for according to the Civil and Canon Laws it is allowable _to repel force by force with the moderation of a blameless defence_.
Moral Philosophy
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I also think that the insurance companies themselves are not blameless when it comes to this matter.
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Less than a day's batting for 20 wickets on a blameless pitch.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am sorry that they will not apologise for the unnecessary anxiety they are causing blameless people.
Times, Sunday Times
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For decades, murder between mobsters has been regarded as a crime in which the victim was not entirely blameless.
Times, Sunday Times
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Last week a special prosecutor ruled that the three officials were blameless.
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It has lived a blameless life in a field of joy, innocent of pesticides and artificial fertilisers.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is irresponsible and certainly unfair since, so far as the world was concerned, he was a perfectly blameless young man.
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There were other siblings involved but they will remain blameless as they were just being nice.
One of these days…
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But the only Olympic faces to take the flak were the entirely blameless and entirely wonderful volunteers.
Times, Sunday Times
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They shredded the reputation of a brilliant and blameless man.
Times, Sunday Times
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Under the Former Han, the term connoted a family that was pure and blameless — that is, one not engaged in unacceptable occupations such as trade, medicine, or manufacturing. 54 Such families did not need to have high social status. 55
Empresses and Consorts
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They had these looks… like the one he's got, blameless and guiltless, like someone had made a big mistake.
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The cult of multiculturalism holds that all minorities are victims of the majority, and therefore minorities must always be blameless.
