Modifies a noun

• triplet: You are excused, " dismissing the two guiltless triplets with a wave of the terrible eyeglass; and w.. .

• people: However you do not cure a killer plague by disseminating a deadly virus on guiltless people.

Modifying Another Word

• completely: It is obviously on the. face of it an atrocious practice because it indiscriminately punishes men who are completely guiltless of any war crime.

Used with adjective complement

• feel: Yet he felt guiltless, breaking the promises he had made himself.