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BLAMELESSLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blamelessly mean?
• BLAMELESSLY (adverb)
The adverb BLAMELESSLY has 1 sense:
1. in an irreproachable and blameless manner
Familiarity information: BLAMELESSLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In an irreproachable and blameless manner
Synonyms:
blamelessly; irreproachably
Context example:
she had lived blamelessly until she met this man
Pertainym:
blameless (free of guilt; not subject to blame)
Context examples
Julia was a sufferer too, though not quite so blamelessly.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
But I loved her: and now it even became some consolation to me, vaguely to conceive a distant day when I might blamelessly avow it; when all this should be over; when I could say Agnes, so it was when I came home; and now I am old, and I never have loved since!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I have no doubt that I was biased, but I think it was blamelessly.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
She had by no means forgotten the past, and she thought as ill of him as ever; but she felt his powers: he was entertaining; and his manners were so improved, so polite, so seriously and blamelessly polite, that it was impossible not to be civil to him in return.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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