How To Use Innocently In A Sentence

Have you ever innocently bitten into a chunk of cayenne pepper in a spicy stir-fry?
He is particularly critical of the supposition that no one suffers innocently since all are born into sin.
Deliciously charming or incredibly irritating, depending on your point of view, he is always ready with smooth-tongued flattery, eyes innocently beaming behind his spectacles.
Back in 1505, turkeys were still gobbling innocently around America.
Maybe she's not as innocently brainless as I've thought of her.

She quite innocently mentioned this to the guy involved and now neither of them is speaking to me. Times, Sunday Times
HIGHllelujah we have busted Heidi Montag after boyfriend Spencer Pratt innocently uploaded this photo of Heidi's new fabulous "updo" with a massive bong in the background (see image) to his Twitter account. Bumpshack.com
I was innocently channel-surfing last night when I landed on a film that had just begun.
After the jury announces him innocently, Alston's happy hug his Attorney Russ peduncle - Harding .
Here on Boing Boing, you'll see that terms like "bukkake" and "anal" rank disproportionately high in our stat logs, relative to the number of times we actually use them in our posts (bats eyelashes innocently). Boing Boing: January 16, 2005 - January 22, 2005 Archives
The tale is innocently romantic without a tinge of irony.
Her friends have quite innocently begun to pass comment and she is becoming increasingly aware of it. Times, Sunday Times
I ask this as innocently as possible. Christianity Today
"I ain't got it!" the accused boy proclaimed as innocently as he could.
Who, you innocently ask, might be the beneficiary of this? Times, Sunday Times
After a moment he raised his head to gaze down into violet eyes lifted innocently to his. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
Besides, things which may perhaps be practiced innocently where they are familiar, produce a moral dilaceration in the course of their being introduced where they are new. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
Everyone looked like a dog's dinner and innocently believed that pop would always laugh with us rather than at us.
They flirted with us shamelessly yet innocently and when we left insisted we kissed their heavily rouged and powdered cheeks.
And in no other job will I catch crabs from innocently sitting in the staff lounge on an extremely festy couch… mmm.
Think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
He innocently assumed that a steel cover placed over a drainpipe was safe to walk on.
And in their zeal and submissiveness they are so innocently meek and "biddable" that they can listen with reverence to young Hyrum Smith publicly lecturing the grandmothers of the order for occasionally partaking of a cup of thin tea. Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft
He was carried away, and what he might have said of that night's happening would have redounded neither to St. Vincent's credit nor to his own, had not Frona innocently put a seal upon his lips ere he had properly begun. CHAPTER 13
It all began innocently enough. Times, Sunday Times
Having argued that the right of slavery, if it exist, implies the right to shoot and murder an enlightened neighbor, with a view to reduce his wife and children to a state of servitude, as well as to crush their intellectual and moral nature in order to keep them in such a state, the author adds, "If I err in making these inferences, I _err innocently_. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
He had innocently blundered into a private dispute.
Jane turns around and innocently remarks, "Admiring the view?"
He has insisted that his company's software was meant to let consumers innocently make backup copies of their DVDs and computer games.
For many youngsters innocently watching it may have meant a dawning of a new direction in life, involving a blend of aspiration, determination and self-confidence.
It started innocently, intended to be a one-shot deal and then, well, you know how that goes.
This means exactly not to be a rebel, but to suffer innocently, including bearing unjust shame.
I mocked as innocently as possible, batting my eyelashes as furiously as I could.
Olaf is a simple man with the soul of a baby, innocently wishing that evil would just disappear so that he could continue to find contentment in fishing.
Two bowed and toothless old almsmen then looked at each other and chuckled, innocently enough; but the sound had a strange weird effect in that place. Far from the Madding Crowd
All component Ying Guang of stair is slippery, fruity, did not highlight, acerb part, the person that lest be opposite, use is caused innocently harm.
Why the FDA keeps that dangerous substance on the market, yet the Quaalude, the delicious euphoria inducer, that innocently made you have sex with the first person who entered the room, or a tree, was banned for good. Abe Gurko: The Galliano Conundrum
Giles widened his eyes innocently, keeping his voice sweet and cherubic as he sang the very slightly altered lyrics.
Not set up himself to do the transfer from 1-inch analog tape, he innocently advised his client to take it to the best place he could find in Manhattan.
Their design is increasingly subtle and their placement more covert as they store a wealth of personal information as we innocently go about our lives. The Sun
Thinking innocently that he wanted to shake it, I gave it to him freely, only to find it lashed with a leather thong and clamped between the stirrup and his foot as he spurred his horse into a gallop.
I caught Chrissie's eye, but she only smiled back at me innocently.
She looked out the front window at the street below them, which appeared deceptively quiet and sedate as a cart rolled by innocently.
* whistling innocently* super fun better than sex in alleys all of the above mood: still recovering I lied.
Forbidden Fruit offsets a studio photo portrait of an innocently luscious teenage girl with a Gourmet magazine cover featuring glamorously lit ripe pomegranates.
He humbly suffers visitations of beings from another world and is innocently drawn into a bizarrely conceived plot for political change.
Henry, when the little girl held the geraniums up to him, observed, that the back of her hand was bruised and black; he asked her how she had hurt herself, and she replied innocently, "that she had not hurt _herself_, but that her schoolmistress was a very _strict_ woman. Tales and Novels — Volume 01
He smiled innocently, pulling his shirt up and letting his checkered pants bag low under his hips.
Handling animals at my farm has become an event that has driven my dear friends away in droves, because they innocently answer my pleas to help with the round-up exactly one time.
No club festivity is permitted without the presence of a director; no young man under the influence of liquor is allowed; certain types of dancing often innocently started are strictly prohibited; and above all, early closing is insisted upon. Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
She cradled the infant in her arms, watching her giggle innocently as those beautiful green eyes sparkled up at her.
It had started out pretty innocently; a trick glass here, a rigged deck of cards there.
The Italian prima donna sweeps a curtsy of careless pity to the over-facile pit which unsexes her with the bravo! innocently meant to show a familiarity with foreign usage. On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners
Here, the softspoken and mentally deficient Ming Ming innocently practices her dancing while also making friends with various other schizoids and lower-functioning inhabitants of the home.
‘How many sleeps is it until theatre class?’ says Tadpole innocently. Package
Whenever she is able to keep her hysterics in check, it sounds as if she's trying to present herself as innocently doe-eyed as possible.
I will say innocently, “Your abreviations always metagrobolize me.” On the rampant misuse of quotation marks
Having a taste for "ghastliness," I had rather longed for the wounded to arrive, for rheumatism was n't heroic, neither was liver complaint, or measles; even fever had lost its charms since "bathing burning brows" had been used up in romances, real and ideal; but when I peeped into the dusky street lined with what I at first had innocently called market carts, now unloading their sad freight at our door, I recalled sundry reminiscences I had heard from nurses of longer standing, my ardor experienced a Hospital Sketches
She stars as a compulsive liar who innocently gets caught up in an industrial espionage plot at her new job.
Budd innocently exalts, even as he is shanghaied and set upon a path that leads to the yardarm.
Then my wife came in to ask, innocently enough, if a cup of tea would help me to cover the last few feet of wall. Times, Sunday Times
Some friends and I were innocently collecting conkers, when suddenly the owner arrived on the scene with a gun in his hand.
He suffered death innocently under false charges of treason and blasphemy.
The pair moved innocently about the ring for much of the opening two minutes with their punches sending loud smacks all over the empty arena.
Marty realizes maybe he was wrong and asks innocently, "What dispatch?"
In the corner of my right eye, I noticed my wheelchair upright next to me, looking as innocently as if nothing had happened.
I'd met him innocently on the beach and there was no spiderweb of lies or hurt around him when it came to me.
Lepotane, son of the chief of a remote village in Basutoland, becomes innocently involved in a ritual murder which goes awry. A. A. Murray
“Now, my dear Miss Summerson, and my dear Mr. Richard,” said Mr. Skimpole gaily, innocently, and confidingly as he looked at his drawing with his head on one side, Bleak House
All too often, quadriplegia (or tetraplegia as it is now referred to) is innocently confused with paraplegia, a condition where only the lower limbs are affected.
She was innocently snoozing on the couch, catching her last remaining Zs of the afternoon, when "Ka-Boom!"
SKETCHY SANTAS hings began innocently enough in fourth-century Turkey, when a wealthy bishop named St. Nicholas became legendary for helping other people. Sketchy Santas
Aislinn's eyes widened innocently as a sparkle of devilment brightened them. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
Couldn't they tell, one might innocently ask. Times, Sunday Times
There is no downside unless a criminal defense lawyer is saying to him, you may be entrapped in answering a question innocently that may be viewed as not truthful, and you might be indicted.
They smiled innocently up at the men, who looked down at them with silly grins, as if they had never seen a woman before.
The old man wearing a striped shirt shrugged innocently while the both of us slid off the small round chairs.
But as our friends are here, innocently, we must not only do our best to entertain them, but avoid the slightest intimation that they were not expected.
Their actions had been so numerous and consistent that they cannot be considered as either innocently naive or simply incompetent.
Just remember this the next time you stroll down the street innocently swinging an armful of shopping.
Ornamented in gold, with enameling in black japan, it sat there, innocently. Surrender A Dream
"I hope you brought your own vinaigrette tonight, Lady Woodbridge?" Althea asked innocently, "I'm afraid to say that I left mine in Hertfordshire."
The game starts out innocently, with the usual childhood pranks and mayhem.
Budd innocently exalts, even as he is shanghaied and set upon a path that leads to the yardarm.
None of the photographs was captioned or identified in any way, so that they posed, innocently, as a generic representation of Cork and Galway at play on a sunny afternoon.
About fifty yards ahead there was a thrush sitting high and singing innocently in an ash tree that overhung the road.
I was thumbing through the mail this afternoon, innocently enough, only to be frightened by this evil, leering tree that popped out at me.
This dramatic figure, though important, is but one in the community of those who innocently endure suffering.
On top of my footlocker was a worn-looking pair of leather work boots, and atop my neatly folded clothes, innocently enough, was a small New Testament Bible. Kings of Colorado
This child is innocently inspired by the apparent goodness and innocence of the adults to whom she pays tribute.
During the 1960s, he had once innocently remarked that "opera houses should be blown up."
Of course tomorrow I would revenge her innocently.
Then along come cyclists, innocently following what they see are the rules of the road, but doing things that drivers aren't allowed to: overtaking queues of cars, moving at well below the speed limit or undertaking on the inside.
It was okay though, my ice-cream was definitely charmed with the sweet aroma and light flavor of elderflower cordial, no matter how it was innocently-looking as if it had been ordinary vanilla ice cream.
He innocently tells her he was ignorant of the rule.
And regardless of how innocently bought and sold, how toilsomely acquired, or how ancient its pedigree, every existing land title will be found to be spurious if traced to its origin.
And something to eat, " Harper said under his breath, staring innocently up at the huge mainsail that was brailed onto a massive boom which jutted out over the diminutive white ensign. Sharpe's Escape
Their physique is feminine; they are fanciful, dainty, reserved; they are literose, sophisticated in craftsmanship, but innocently unaware of the profound agitations of American life, of life everywhere. American Literature
And if you, innocently trying to get a cool drink of water, become the passive recipient of the grousing, instead of stroking your chin while you pretend to listen, kindly ask the grouser if they've thought of doing anything proactive about their issue. Archive 2006-06-01
And now, in a small nebula brimming with new lifeforms, ready and innocently waiting to see what the universe had in store for them, an Alpha lurks.
They marched innocently off to the Pentagon to try to levitate it and put flowers in rifle barrels.
His remarks also suggest that he innocently viewed intelligence analysis as largely a matter of collation; the facts would speak for themselves, if only they could only be gathered in one place.
He has a sharp eye, a fluent pen and that innocently English curiosity about wild creatures. Times, Sunday Times
Samir accepted at once, and -- innocently -- became quite attracted to the genial antiquary, with whom he soon found much in common. KARA KUSH
It'started innocently enough : fighting off raiders, destroying slave ships.
And her eye falls on a ball-point pen, which is innocently lying on top of a block of squared paper.
He wasn't even a protester - just a city resident who went out to a deli for some matzo ball soup and innocently walked into a police dragnet that was indiscriminately scooping up hundreds of people.
Nina innocently calls upon her reality-bending powers with the best of intentions, to help her friend land the guy of her dreams.
What about couples who can no longer have sexual relations because one of them has innocently been infected by HIV?
The colt nickered at her, deep almond coloured eyes blinking innocently.
"I was scared that if I stopped I wouldn't be able to start the car up again," he explained innocently.
she smiled at him innocently
It began innocently enough with a simple question. Times, Sunday Times
Innocently he invites his new American buddy back to the army base, only to discover that he has been lured into the murky world of espionage.
What makes my error even more comical is that I innocently inferred that the industrious and opportunistic (in a positive sense) Europeans who became refugees to France during the turmoil of the Algerian independence movement had somehow contributed to the urban squalor I observed in La Rose which was about as far from the truth as one could venture. Page 2
The politically correct exotica that crept out of the darkness to yip included hypocrites like “Fairdealphil” who shows his progressive underwear from the all white fastness of Lincolnshire where he innocently dodders. Black Issues or White Guilt
Some persons suffer innocently by the sinful acts of others.
He had innocently blundered into a private dispute.
I shot a questioning look at my twin sister, who just beamed back at me innocently.
And here -- with "zoological" and "geological" in his mind, but not ready to his tongue -- the small scholar has innocently gone and let out a couple of secrets which ought never to have been divulged in any circumstances: What Is Man? and Other Essays
They seemed always to have died of pneumonia while they were being innocently detained.
A child uses many things when externalizing - both animate and inanimate objects are innocently used to promote and protect individual core identity.
Complications arise if the donee innocently expends the stolen money in reliance on the validity of the gift before the donee receives notice of the victim's claim for restitution.
She would fall innocently and passionately in love with the doctrines of the Heresy.
The errors, I think, were innocently caused by the prism of memory bending facts.
He'll stand at the edge of a field where children are innocently playing and catch them if they get too close to the edge.
He innocently believes that one's life can be arranged as simply and beautifully as one's house.
O Mrs. Booth! could I have been certain that I had occasioned this, however innocently I had occasioned it, I could never have survived it; but the surgeon who opened him after his death assured me that he died of what they called a polypus in his heart, and that nothing which had happened on account of me was in the least the occasion of it. Amelia — Complete
"Now, you try," they were bid, and they would obey innocently, unaware of the carnal tenacity of their test subject.
Long before anybody had heard of her, someone innocently asked the Pope if he had had occasion to hear of Edith Stein.
He found, as he knew he would, for he had yachted with Edestone before, a complete outfit, not forgetting the cocktail, which was standing on the table as quietly and innocently as if it had always been there, although in reality it had just been placed there by a man who, with years of experience in listening to the sounds that come from a gentleman's bathroom, had timed its arrival to the second. L.P.M. : the end of the Great War
I was innocently walking with my friend, when Stephen ran at me from behind, jumped up, and gave me a tremendous flying kick in the back.
I'm innocently baffled by the apparent absence of furious debate and thundering editorials on the subject of spycams at 400-yard intervals all over England.
Ancient land rights were innocently signed away by people whose cultures were embedded in their physical environs.
There is a forbiddingly cruel woman on the one hand and an innocently sweet girl accomplished in the art of good housekeeping on the other.
These places are "so innocently confident in their excesses," she says, that they give her "permission to exaggerate, invent, and obsess."
Serial networkers - you know, the ones you seem to innocently bump into at all sorts of events - can certainly teach us a thing or two.
He was so innocently unaware of the world he lived in, that it bothered her and turned her from favoring him.
In the novel, a young housemaid named Griet innocently entrances Vermeer who comes to see her as a sacred refuge from a soulless marriage.
Less than half a second later, it shot back upwards, twinkling innocently, leaving John with a confused and slightly dazed expression.
The married Van Alden's feelings for Margaret start off innocently enough, but when he absconds with her hair ribbon and well, deeply inhales its scent when he's alone, it's clear that Van Alden's kind of a weirdo. Boardwalk Empire's Michael Shannon Doesn't Know How Creepy He Can Be
It started quite innocently - a small twinge developed into a spreading stiffness across my lower back.
About fifty yards ahead there was a thrush sitting high and singing innocently in an ash tree that overhung the road.
These can be slipped into your luggage quite innocently on the pretext that they're darned useful for keeping camera film dry on canoeing expeditions.
She answered innocently enough but Devin's eyes just slitted suspiciously at her.
The so-called third wave were the consumers, the home renovators, for example, who innocently put up or pulled down asbestos fibro.
Apart from the innocently clumsy use of the word "racial," was that really true then?
In the best case scenario, let's say the word "pansification" was spoken innocently and without intent to hurt from the mouth of Milbury. Archive 2009-02-01
Another serious allegation against him is one of misleading others, innocently or culpably, over the contract.
Here, whilst I left the little girl innocently eating a polony in the front shop, I and Boroughbridge retired with the boy into the back parlour, where Mrs. Boroughbridge was playing cribbage. English Satires
She's standing ceremoniously beside the chief, watching as innocently as a child at a celebration.
The songs are simply wholesome and innocently jolly, which perfectly match America's number-one flaky housewife.
he claimed to have purchased the contraband innocently
He plays the part of the semi-moronic, innocently brutal Quentin with as much conviction as one can muster for such an absurd character.
Now say west innocently lets the king of hearts win - the normal looking autopilot defence. Times, Sunday Times
They mutually compassionated his unhappy situation in domestic life, and Cecilia innocently expressed her concern at the dislike Lady Margaret seemed to have taken to her; a dislike which Mr Harrel naturally enough imputed to her youth and beauty, yet without suspecting any cause more cogent than a general jealousy of attractions of which she had herself so long outlived the possession. Cecilia
Paula smiled innocently at me and continued, playing a short riff, reprising the tune then pulling bits and pieces of other unfamiliar melodies out of the air, never breaking key.
It was the slapstick premise of a woman who's innocently walking down the street when a harp flails out of a window and lands on her.
He goes innocently to investigate, only to be captured and brought to a military fort, to be broken by the harsh colonel.
Yes, laughter too; for in the self-contradictory convolutions of human thought and action, the funny can, innocently or not, coexist with the most tragic.
Jamie executes a perfect jump turn beside me and asks innocently, ‘Are you all right, Daddy?’
He remembered how innocently they had discussed which natives they would blow to smithereens and which they would grant a reprieve to.
She blinked and slowly remembered what had occurred when she had been innocently picking flowers in the meadow.
With their hands still entangled together, they looked at their family innocently.
All component Ying Guang of stair is slippery, fruity, did not highlight, acerb part, the person that lest be opposite, use is caused innocently harm.
I asked him innocently, mentally shoving down the pained expression that tried to break through.
The shrimp with which he was experimenting innocently introduced iron filings into the statocyst. The Human Brain
When the guard clipped our tickets, Chris, in an attempt to solve our Saturday problem, asked innocently if they would still be going on strike on Saturday.
You're innocently playing around on the internet when - whoops - you accidentally buy a car belonging to Elvis Presley.
He observes innocently that the governor won't be able to marry them the next day.
It offsets a studio photo portrait of an innocently luscious teenage girl with a Gourmet magazine cover featuring ripe pomegranates.
A firm which innocently seeks to lower costs and improve product quality may simultaneously be making it harder for entry to occur.
[It may also speak to this mental fitness if he's "remembering" (apolitically, innocently) something that never happened to him.] Solzhenitsyn Biographer: Cross-In-Dirt Gulag Story Never Happened
I suppose you mean antependia, rere-dosses, stone altars, copes, and mitres, "said Willis innocently;" which certainly are not in Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert

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