Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Free of guilt; blameless.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not culpable; not meriting blame; innocent.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Faultless; blameless; innocent.

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  • adjective Not culpable; immune from liability.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective free of guilt; not subject to blame

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Examples

  • Every organic morsel of her inculpable being meant as much, and had as much complexity as this star system.

    365 tomorrows » 2009 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

  • Their slightest charities aggrandized, their failings easily forgiven and forgotten, inculpable colossi towering over their lessers, imposing themselves and shattering lives with a casual indifference born of self-affected ambition.

    Masked Lou Anders 2010

  • Their slightest charities aggrandized, their failings easily forgiven and forgotten, inculpable colossi towering over their lessers, imposing themselves and shattering lives with a casual indifference born of self-affected ambition.

    Masked Lou Anders 2010

  • According to Bayle, because she thinks the man is her husband, the wife, in ceding him those rights, not only is inculpable of an act that otherwise would be adulterous, but actually performs her duty.

    This, About The Man I Met Out Here In Nearly Nowhere 2009

  • SHERMAN: Yes, but when you ` ve shifted through their underwear drawer and you got everything she ` s written on the computers, her text messages, everyone in the world is informing on her, you would think you would come up with some statement that -- is inculpable.

    CNN Transcript Dec 1, 2008 2008

  • He wrote "I will test the theory that bullets speak louder than words, perhaps the blood of the inculpable will cause a paradigm shift."

    CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2008 2008

  • If this doesn't disgust the so-called Christian Right, they are inculpable of empathy and are hypocrites in their opposition to abortion, a practice I find just as disgusting, as abortion itself.

    OpEdNews - Diary: Remember Tom DeLaye and Jack Abramoff? I'll Bet Mr. Schaffer, Hopes Not 2008

  • If a person's failure to be fully incorporated is inculpable for some reason, God can and does count that person's positive response to grace as a measure of incorporation into Christ, and therefore as a degree of membership in the Church.

    Who can be saved: reconceiving the question Mike L 2008

  • All I have viewed is the lamas hit the inculpable citizens in Tibet.

    Wikileaks Tries to Spread Tibet Videos - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • If someone robs a bank and gives me the money that I know is from a robbed bank, am I morally inculpable?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » This is Pretty Cool…: 2007

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  • So who dunnit, Mort?

    July 25, 2008

  • I did. Sorry.

    July 25, 2008