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guiltlessly
adverb
uk /ˈɡɪlt.ləs.li/ us /ˈɡɪlt.ləs.li/
without feeling guilty, because you know or feel that you have not done anything wrong:
You can guiltlessly delete most of the urgent-looking emails that clutter your inbox.
He would guiltlessly tell his children little white lies just so he could avoid talking about complicated matters.
Related word
guiltless
When asked where he had been on the night of the murder, he guiltlessly told the police he was at home watching a movie.
In the first act of the play, she guiltlessly detaches herself from a married man she has been seeing and takes up with his brother.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Innocent
acquit
acquit someone of something
acquittal
be above/beyond reproachidiom
be in the clearidiom
clear of something
cleared
come up/out smelling of rosesidiom
culpability
culpably
exoneration
guiltless
inculpable
innocence
innocency
reproach
self-exculpation
sinless
sinlessly
squeaky-clean
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