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| absolve |
to free from consequences, blame, or guilt. [1/3 definitions] |
| ashamed |
having feelings of shame, guilt, or embarrassment. [1/3 definitions] |
| blame |
the act of attributing fault, guilt, or responsibility. [1/5 definitions] |
| blameless |
free from guilt or blame. |
| clean-handed |
free of responsibility or guilt; blameless. |
| cleanse |
to purify, as of sin or guilt. [1/2 definitions] |
| clear |
free from guilt; blameless. [1/22 definitions] |
| confess |
to make a confession; admit guilt. [1/6 definitions] |
| contrite |
feeling deep guilt for one's wrongdoing or shortcoming and desiring to make amends for it; remorseful; repentant. [1/2 definitions] |
| criminate |
to demonstrate the guilt of; incriminate. [1/3 definitions] |
| exculpate |
to free (a person or group) from guilt or blame, or from the suspicion of guilt or blame. |
| guiltless |
without guilt; sinless; innocent. |
| guilty |
characterized by or feeling guilt or regret. [1/2 definitions] |
| inculpable |
free of guilt or blame. |
| innocence |
freedom from guilt, blame, or fault. [1/5 definitions] |
| innocent |
undeserving of guilt or blame. [1/6 definitions] |
| justify |
to absolve of sin or error; declare or make free of blame or guilt. [1/5 definitions] |
| McCarthyism |
the practices of making sensational and often unfounded charges, of alleging guilt by association, and of conducting inquisitorial proceedings, esp. as in the anticommunist crusade of Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. |
| nolo contendere |
in law, a plea entered in a criminal case that the charges will not be contested, thus allowing the defendant's conviction without any admission of guilt. |
| ordeal |
formerly, a method of deciding guilt or innocence by exposing a person to physical danger or torment, the outcome being considered divine judgment. [1/2 definitions] |
| own |
to admit guilt; confess (usu. fol. by "to" or "up"). [1/6 definitions] |
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