Crossword-Solution: INNOCENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Innocent | a. | Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy. |
| Innocent | a. | Morally free from guilt; guiltless; not tainted with sin; pure; upright. |
| Innocent | a. | Free from the guilt of a particular crime or offense; as, a man is innocent of the crime charged. |
| Innocent | a. | Simple; artless; foolish. |
| Innocent | a. | Lawful; permitted; as, an innocent trade. |
| Innocent | a. | Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture; as, innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation. |
| Innocent | n. | An innocent person; one free from, or unacquainted with, guilt or sin. |
| Innocent | n. | An unsophisticated person; hence, a child; a simpleton; an idiot. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with INNOCENT (5)
What a lesson! The nest must have fallen into the water, but would the mother desert her eggs? No.” There was a break in his voice, as if for a moment he recalled innocent days when—but he brushed away this weakness with his hook.
She would have given anything in the world to be, as those children were, unconcerned at the meaning of their words, because too innocent to feel the necessity for any such expression.
But for my daughters twain, poor innocent maids, Who ever sat beside me at the board Sharing my viands, drinking of my cup, For them, I pray thee, care, and, if thou willst, O might I feel their touch and make my moan.
Thus the young and pure would be taught to look at her, with the scarlet letter flaming on her breast—at her, the child of honourable parents—at her, the mother of a babe that would hereafter be a woman—at her, who had once been innocent—as the figure, the body, the reality of sin.
Nor can I truly say that I wearied of this beneficent and innocent life; I think instead that I daily enjoyed it more completely; but I was still cursed with my duality of purpose; and as the first edge of my penitence wore off, the lower side of me, so long indulged, so recently chained down, began to growl for licence.
Quotes with INNOCENT (3)
When I talk about unrequited love, most of you probably think about romantic love, but there are many other kinds of love that are not adequately returned, if they are returned at all. An angry adolescent may not love her mother back as her mother loves her; an abusive father doesn't return the innocent open love of his young child. But grief is the ultimate unrequieted love. However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels...
I'm not naive...... I grew up in a white supremacist compound with a daddy who wanted to murder innocent people and blow up the government for funzies. They beat up and possibly killed anyone who didn't agree with their ideals, and married their daughters off to perverts to hide sex crimes. I am not one of those females who see the world through rose-coloured glasses, or if I do, the roses are blood-red and thorny as hell. - Tess
There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you un…
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Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WP, WSJ.
Used 27 times in crossword archives (1945–2023).