Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an innocent manner; harmlessly; guilelessly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an innocent manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
innocent manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a naively innocent manner
- adverb in a not unlawful manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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My point, and from your paragraph where you want sexuality to unfold innocently, is that IMO it so rarely does.
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But to his friends he seemed only the agreeable, clever, lively, and, if we may use the phrase innocently, the worldly man, -- never affecting a superior sanctity, or an over-anxiety to forms, except upon great occasions; and rendering his austerity of manners the more admired, because he made it seem so unaccompanied by hypocrisy.
Paul Clifford — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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But to his friends he seemed only the agreeable, clever, lively, and, if we may use the phrase innocently, the worldly man, -- never affecting a superior sanctity, or an over-anxiety to forms, except upon great occasions; and rendering his austerity of manners the more admired, because he made it seem so unaccompanied by hypocrisy.
Paul Clifford — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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The history of the word begins innocently enough with the Latin word scamnum, "a stool or bench serving as a seat, step, or support for the feet, for example."
Scribal Terror 2008
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The history of the word begins innocently enough with the Latin word scamnum, "a stool or bench serving as a seat, step, or support for the feet, for example."
Scribal Terror 2008
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He says he met her 8 years ago, "innocently" - but then just had to get in her pants
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Now, I was going to read you something from the Moomins, but it’s not quite as charming when removed from the illustrations of big Moomin innocently bent-over butts.
Of Angleworms and Others | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast 2008
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There was a little bottle labelled innocently: "Grey powder" with a dose.
N or M Christie, Agatha 1941
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You don't know if she was "innocently" referencing a prior name of the area, or was making a highly inflammatory and antisemitic political statement.
Discourse.net: White House Puts its Media Skills to Work on Diplomacy 2009
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You don't know if she was "innocently" referencing a prior name of the area, or was making a highly inflammatory and antisemitic political statement.
Discourse.net: White House Puts its Media Skills to Work on Diplomacy 2009
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