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innocent - use in sentences
Converse of object
- slaughter: The ribbon is red and white - supposedly, red for the blood spilled and white for the innocents slaughtered.
- kill: The fact is his terrorist resistance achieved nothing except killing innocents.
Preposition: as
- dove: Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
Modifies a noun
- civilian: The killing of innocent civilians is the issue here.
- bystander: More likely the remote systems are innocent bystanders who were compromised.
- victim: I wouldn't want to become an innocent victim of your killing spree!
- passer-by: Other rules & stuff: There will be penalties for killing people other than your target, or innocent passers-by.
- Iraqi: Can you at least hope for what's best for innocent Iraqis now?
- citizen: Innocent citizens are locked up for their own beliefs.
Modifying Another Word
- seemingly: These two lines are seemingly innocent talk about viewing houses.
- perfectly: Often data can diverge from Benford's Law for perfectly innocent reasons.
- entirely: De Menezes was an entirely innocent civilian going about his everyday business.
Used with adjective complement
- presume: Additionally, specific rights given to people being prosecuted for a criminal charge include: The right to be presumed innocent.
- plead: Would you prefer people to lie and plead innocent?
- prove: If he's proved innocent, they will say you helped to collar him.
- declare: He was declared innocent of any crimes by the court.
- seem: It was a personal turning point for me, where the whole world suddenly seemed less innocent.
Preposition: of
- wrongdoing: Most men, usually innocent of substantive wrongdoing, find themselves legally defenseless against the destruction of the fabric of their lives.
- crime: He was declared innocent of any crimes by the court.
- charge: Gaia gets her revenge in even when CFCs are innocent of the charges.
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