as in innocent
free from guilt or blame
you may not have started the ugly rumor, but you helped to spread it, so you're hardly inculpable
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Recent Examples of inculpable
The Iceberg on the Sinking of the Titanic The dumb amount of doors this inculpable hunk of ice has opened.
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Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 11 Feb. 2025
Rats are reviled but resilient, dangerous but inculpable.
—Oliver Whang, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2023
Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 11 Feb. 2025
Rats are reviled but resilient, dangerous but inculpable.
—Oliver Whang, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inculpable
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Comprehensive cell phone analysis can be just as powerful in clearing innocent drivers by proving no user interaction occurred.—
Lars Daniel,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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But the alternative is much worse: a world where the loss of innocent life is treated as inescapable, where no calamity can be prevented or bad situation reformed.—
Olga Khazan,
The Atlantic,
14 July 2025
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And how many guiltless prisoners there are here!—
Alexei Navalny,
The New Yorker,
11 Oct. 2024
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Many fans found its generally joyous treatment of Miranda’s guiltless affair with Che, a nonbinary comedian, in the first season off-putting.—
Lili Loofbourow,
Washington Post,
21 June 2023
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“Inculpable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inculpable. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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