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# blameless

«blameless» in Mova's school dictionary: **Not responsible for something bad that happened; not guilty** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (blameless)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Not responsible for something bad that happened; not guilty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blameless/#m1)

2) Never doing anything wrong; innocent and good. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blameless/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and news, «he was completely blameless» clears someone's name. In everyday life we say it when someone was not at fault in an accident or argument. Phrase: lead a blameless life.

### examples

- The driver was blameless; the other car went through the red light. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blameless/#x1)
- The dog was blameless – the cat broke the vase! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blameless/#x2)
- She led a blameless life. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blameless/#x3)
- Nobody is entirely blameless in this argument. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blameless/#x4)
- The report said the teacher was blameless. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blameless/#x5)

### note

«-less» means without, so «blameless» means without blame. Opposite: to blame, guilty, at fault.

### In the corpora

- [That they may shoot in secret places at the blameless; suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1035/)
- [Or is it gain to Him, that thou makest thy ways blameless?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.570/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «blameless» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blameless/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.