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Not guilty   /nɑt gˈɪlti/   Listen
Not guilty

adjective
1.
Declared not guilty of a specific offense or crime; legally blameless.  Synonym: acquitted.  "The jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity"






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"Not guilty" Quotes from Famous Books



... a charming struggle ensued, terminating in the victory of the young gentleman, and the capture of the rosebud. This little skirmish over, the married lady, who was the mother of the rosebud, smiled sweetly upon the young gentleman, and accused him of being a flirt; the young gentleman pleading not guilty, a most interesting discussion took place upon the important point whether the young gentleman was a flirt or not, which being an agreeable conversation of a light kind, lasted a considerable time. At length, a short ...
— Sketches by Boz - illustrative of everyday life and every-day people • Charles Dickens

... himself that he desired the poor man's death, but he was aware that in his death he found the most hopeful vision of the night. Angry with the public feeling that accused him of a crime of which he was not guilty, and guilty of a crime of which definitely the public knew little or nothing, there was no man in Sevenoaks so unhappy as he. He loved power and popularity. He had been happy in the thought that he controlled the town, and for the moment, ...
— Sevenoaks • J. G. Holland

... question amongst the departmental lawyers as to whether John Lexman was not guilty of a technical and punishable offence for prison breaking, but this possibility did not keep T. X. awake at nights. The circumstances of the escape had been carefully examined. The warder responsible had been discharged ...
— The Clue of the Twisted Candle • Edgar Wallace

... large section of Africa, and yet was received in every court, and was eventually buried after a panegyric from a Cardinal of the Roman Church—a church which had never once raised her voice against his diabolical career. Consider the similar crimes in the Putumayo, where British capitalists, if not guilty of outrage, can at least not be acquitted of having condoned it by their lethargy and trust in local agents. Think of Turkey and the recurrent massacres of her subject races. Think of the heartless grind ...
— The Vital Message • Arthur Conan Doyle

... Louvaine?" Her voice said, "Guilty or not guilty?" so plainly that he was almost ready to respond, ...
— It Might Have Been - The Story of the Gunpowder Plot • Emily Sarah Holt


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