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innocent
adjective (NOT INVOLVED) /ˈɪn.ə.sənt/Definition
B2 An innocent person is someone who is not involved with any military group or war: Several innocent bystanders were injured in the explosion.Innocent innocently
/-li/ adverb B2 "Have I done something wrong?", she asked innocently (= seeming not to have done anything wrong). He said he had obtained the television innocently, not knowing it had been stolen.Innocent
(Definition of innocent adjective (NOT INVOLVED) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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