Example Sentences

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In a certain sense, wealthy people could live with a justifiable guiltlessness in “Mad Men” New York.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2012

Among such victims of war, children, with their mixture of helplessness and guiltlessness, are the most poignant.

From Time Magazine Archive

Job protests his guiltlessness, defies the dark power of fate, and even challenges divine justice, but God himself announces at the end that no man can grasp the essence of His plan for the world.

From Jewish Theology by Kohler, Kaufmann

To our great relief the botanist was at last seized with sickness, and thereby proved his guiltlessness of a practical joke; three more miserable men I never saw for the space of several hours.

From Southern Arabia by Bent, Theodore

As he ended it, it was plain that Perennis believed he had cleared himself completely and had not only vindicated himself before his master, but had convinced the mutineers of his guiltlessness and loyalty.

From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by White, Edward Lucas