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innocent English

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What does innocent mean?
Definitions in simple English

innocent

If you are innocent you do not know evil. How could he hurt an innocent child?!? I was innocent once, but I've seen too many bad things since then. If you are innocent of a crime you did not do that crime. I swore to the police that I was innocent.

innocent

Someone who is innocent. That is, someone who lacks evil or the knowledge of evil. He was a total innocent. #If something bad happens to an innocent it means that the person did not deserve it. #:If you don't help save them, the blood of the innocents will be on your hand. (meaning, "...it will be your fault innocents have been hurt or killed.")

innocent

free from evil or guilt an innocent child the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty lacking intent or capacity to injure an innocent prank (= ingenuous) lacking in sophistication or worldliness a child's innocent stare his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it (= impeccant) free from sin (= unacquainted) not knowledgeable about something specified American tourists wholly innocent of French a person unacquainted with our customs (used of things) lacking sense or awareness fine innocent weather a person who lacks knowledge of evil (= barren, destitute, devoid) completely wanting or lacking writing barren of insight young recruits destitute of experience innocent of literary merit the sentence was devoid of meaning

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Simple sentences

That child was talking with an innocent smile.
Tom said that he was innocent.
The accused is innocent until proven guilty.
I think he's innocent.
I believe Tom is innocent.
I'm just an innocent bystander.
He looks innocent, but don't leave your glasses unattended in his presence.
In my opinion, he's innocent.
Mary still believes that Tom is innocent.
He insisted that he was innocent.
Is Tom innocent or guilty?
Mina is innocent.
The news article painted the defendant as a guilty man, even though he had been proven innocent.
The man said he was innocent of the crime.
I'll say this: I am innocent.
These people are anything but innocent.
It follows from this evidence that she is innocent.
In the light of this fact, it is clear that he is innocent.
This fact shows us that he is innocent.
It follows from this that he must be innocent.
From this, it follows that he is innocent.
The judge concluded that the prisoner was innocent.
The fact that I'm here proves that I'm innocent.
We believed him to be innocent.
I have every reason to believe that he is innocent of the crime.
To the best of my knowledge, he is innocent.
Masaru claims that he is innocent.
From this evidence it follows that he is innocent.
This fact shows that he is innocent.
He was innocent as a child.
As far as I know, he is innocent.
I am convinced that my son is innocent.
I affirmed that he was innocent.
I thought that he was innocent.

Movie subtitles

Is he taking out his anger on some innocent soul?
Because you are all that stands Between the innocent and evil.
The villain slips out and assumes an innocent demeanour so as not to be sprung by the other participants.
And back then, it just seemed like innocent fun, and now, well. it. it just doesn't.
Sophie might come across as innocent, but she always gets what she wants.
Innocent pastime.
Deliverance is possible by no other means, but that an innocent maiden maketh the vampyre heed not the first crowing of the cock, this done by the sacrifice of her own bloode.
Nana changes her plan of attack and plays innocent.
You will die in torment if you die with innocent blood on your soul.
And you shall die in torment if you let innocent blood stain your soul.
My poor little innocent.
But he is innocent, auntie.
The innocent young person itself becomes a vampire and seeks to prey on its nearest and dearest.
JUDGE: Gentlemen of the jury, you are instructed that the defendant is under the laws of the State of New York, presumed to be innocent of the crime with which he is charged.
Both the men who were so brutally murdered were innocent civilians, not only that, but intellectuals trusted by those around them.
I'm innocent.
But I know she's innocent!
I'd left the theater, but I know she's innocent.
No, I'm innocent!
If you're innocent, as you claim, in spite of being seen near the victim's dressing room and clearly being sought after, why didn't you go to the authorities on your own?
Don't give me that innocent stuff or you'll be alone.
He's not innocent.
That's the thanks I get for freeing an innocent girl. who, although she is hiding at the moment. has promised to become the mother of her children.
He's innocent. milady, I swear it.
He's innocent, I tell you, innocent!
Because you are innocent.
She is innocent.
He figured a poor little innocent girl like you needed something for protection.
YOU'D DO THAT TO AN INNOCENT CHILD?
You know you're innocent till you're proven guilty.
That innocent Judge Ramsey. that you were sure got bumped off, has been located in South America.
Although innocent of any wrong-doing.. She was driven into the street, where the Argentine was waiting.
And he is innocent!
Although he is innocent, he will still be tried.
It is easy to go to jail but it costs you dearly to get out. There are many innocent who are poor. A poor innocent is a culprit.

News and current affairs

In a matter of hours, more than 3,000 innocent people, mostly Americans, but also people from 115 other countries, had their lives suddenly and violently taken from them.
Although it is true that thousands of the civilians killed in Dresden and other German cities were innocent at an individual level, there can be no doubt it was morally imperative that Germany be defeated collectively.
The war in Iraq cost countless innocent lives, such as when the UN headquarters in Baghdad was bombed.
While 3,000 innocent people died in the US on September 11, 2001, in Africa 8,000 innocent children die every day from malaria.
Generals Atanase Stanculescu and Mihai Chitac were found guilty of ordering the killings of dozens of innocent people in Timisoara in 1989.
Israeli bombs and missiles periodically strike the encapsulated area, causing high casualties among both militants and innocent women and children.
Others remember Rwanda, where President Bill Clinton later expressed regret for not acting to save innocent lives.
I held the US in high regard and figured that it would be only a matter of time before they realized that I was innocent and let me go.
Unlike Germany, Russia has never recognized its responsibility for the war and the mass graves of the innocent.
If a convict turns out to be innocent, his execution cannot be undone.
Also, assassination by drones inevitably leads to the killing of innocent civilians - the very crime that defines terrorism.
Murdering more than 60 innocent young people at a summer camp with an assault rifle, after bombing a chunk of central Oslo, is, to put it mildly, morally eccentric - something most sane people would never dream of doing.
Yes, the existence of religious fanatics eager to kill large numbers of innocent American civilians warrants strong measures in response.
It is time to put this principle into effect before many more innocent lives are lost.
In the Hollywood tradition, of course, the American hero fighting an indigenous enemy is innocent and moral, a reluctant warrior bringing democracy, or at least justice, to feral savages.
But tolerable is not good enough when it comes to protecting innocent life.
The Paris attacks targeted innocent people everywhere, and the public deserves answers from those whose job it is to prevent such incidents from happening.
Most appalling was the army's murder of thousands of innocent civilians in order to present the deaths as FARC casualties.
There will always be those who will resort to force against innocent men, women, and children in pursuit of political goals.

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