I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an innocent expression
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‘It was so late,’ she continued with an innocent expression, ‘I had to stay the night.’
an innocent victim
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Children are the innocent victims of war.
be presumed dead/innocent etc
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Their nephew was missing, presumed dead.
innocent bystanders
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Several innocent bystanders were killed by the blast.
play the innocent (= pretend you do not know about something )
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Don’t play the innocent with me – we both know what happened.
plead guilty/not guilty/innocent
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Henderson pled guilty to burglary.
prove sb guilty/innocent
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The law states that you are innocent until proved guilty.
seemingly innocuous/innocent (= seeming unlikely to cause any problems )
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Even seemingly innocuous questions can get an employer into trouble.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
apparently
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The six cakes sat there, apparently innocent and, oddly enough, still appetizing.
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A person during hypnosis is so involved in fantasy and imagination that an apparently innocent question can actually create new memories.
completely
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She was completely innocent , but how could she prove it?
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The police switched to regarding her as completely innocent and she became the star witness.
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He was completely innocent , but it was his fault.
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He says he is completely innocent .
entirely
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De Michelis said that he was entirely innocent of any malpractice.
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In practically all other versions, she is on the surface entirely innocent .
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Madeleine was entirely innocent and had no idea of the strength of his physical need of her.
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Perhaps it was by pure chance that the other woman had been there, and Matthew was entirely innocent .
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It was quite a litany of aggression, even though on at least one count she was entirely innocent !
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He was taken to Cowley Police Station and released after two hours when Police realised his role was entirely innocent .
perfectly
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It was a perfectly innocent rather charming suggestion on the part of Hindley Foster.
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Of course the investigation may discover a perfectly innocent explanation.
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The more ingenious, those who had mastered paper planes at school, made paper hats from perfectly innocent newspapers.
so
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That day in the garden ... you were so innocent , so gentle, so untouched by war and betrayal.
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He was so sweet when he slept, so helpless, so innocent .
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Had she really been so innocent that she'd forgotten how passionately he could kiss?
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This little old lady is not so innocent as she seems.
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They were so innocent , so vulnerable, so eager to behave decently.
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He looked so innocent and worried when he stopped me.
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The automaton no longer looked so innocent .
totally
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There could be a totally innocent reason why some one arrived with no documents.
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Conspiracy buffs would have us believe that Ray is totally innocent , that he had nothing to do with the crime.
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He lacked many of the plainer necessities of life, and of ambition he was totally innocent .
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I am convinced that only my genuinely clear conscience let me convince the adults around me that I was totally innocent .
■ NOUN
bystander
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And Coren, dressing up as Moses and leading 200 innocent bystanders into the Promised Land.
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Police Officer Jack Wronski said two of the victims were known gang members; the other was an innocent bystander .
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No police widows, no innocent bystanders hurt.
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Because the innocent bystander wandering into frame is, predictably, the delicious Riva herself.
child
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For the sake of that innocent child , whom you wanted to destroy.
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Call her an innocent child , a tormented animal, or a nurturing moon-deity.
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And now he was lurching about his flat with innocent children asleep in their beds, and he had lied to Helga.
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She awoke with the innocent children asleep around her, she who had lost her innocence.
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Blind obedience would have resulted in the death of an innocent child .
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Five of those innocent children knocked down an old woman of 79.
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How depressing to see a potential threat to money treated more seriously than a clear and present threat to innocent children .
girl
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They were simple innocent girls who had not been loved.
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This beautiful and innocent girl on the other side of the world insisted that I call her Sally.
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Them perverts, they pick on the nice innocent girls .
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Many of us in this village gave blood for the innocent girls .
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There's an innocent man in prison and an innocent girl missing from home.
life
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Many innocent lives have already been lost because of people like him.
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My order to attack undoubtedly saved a lot of other innocent lives but it still doesn't give me peace of mind.
man
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Secondly, how could Ministers knowingly allow innocent men to go to jail?
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The defense contends that linking those dots properly reveals a picture of Simpson as an innocent man wrongly accused.
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In what way is it a humanitarian act to kill, maim and wound innocent men , women and children?
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Yet today my ignorance could have caused an innocent man to be sent to the gallows.
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In the elegant way of innocent men , he accepted his gift graciously.
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You have taken away innocent men .
party
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There are just two qualifications to this last point, i.e. which apply where the innocent party immediately accepts the repudiation.
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Even innocent parties were excluded from court until 1887.
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The duty to mitigate does not apply where the innocent party refuses to accept the anticipatory breach as a repudiation.
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As is often the case, the principal odium falls on an innocent party .
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They feel that as innocent parties they are being cheated.
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Section 5 renders an agreement made with an unauthorised person unenforceable at the option of the innocent party .
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In the case of the innocent parties they must have known each other for at least two years.
people
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Adult gangs did fight, but not with innocent people or bystanders.
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For example, it offers important protections to innocent people whose spouse or former spouse has failed to pay taxes.
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But the intentional mass murder of innocent people is not.
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He harmed many innocent people -- children, young people.
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He has received death threats after cheating hundreds of innocent people .
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Those supposedly innocent people out there getting clubbed-among them was a cold-eyed assassin, maybe a ring of cold-eyed assassins.
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One person's disobedience can have awful social consequences for many other innocent people .
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All she could think about was all of those innocent people dying.
person
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They surely couldn't prove an innocent person guilty.
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Some friends felt that Alvin had returned a harder, less innocent person .
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I would agree that a hypnotist could not, for example, make me attack an innocent person .
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Bush says he's confident that no innocent person has been put to death during his tenure.
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They confirmed that Black was an innocent person who walked into his own cottage on lawful business that Saturday afternoon.
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That really was quite an event to shoot an innocent person in New York City.
victim
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The crawling and wriggling carcasses had been the innocent victims of the chaos taking possession of their world.
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I can not see her as an innocent victim of a nasty and dissolute hippie.
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She had been such an innocent victim from the start it seemed only fair to help her all they could now.
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Do not assume they are necessarily innocent victims .
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He is believed to be an innocent victim of a clean-up campaign which included the demolition of buildings.
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However, Melancia maintained that he was the innocent victim of a politically motivated smear campaign.
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Murderers, rapists and muggers are innocent victims of society, their parents and traumatic early experience.
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For Lisa to cast herself as an innocent victim was maddening enough.
woman
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The media's search for the monster has been completed and the future safely of innocent women can be celebrated.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
don't come the innocent/victim/helpless male etc with me
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"I didn't kill him - I'm innocent !" Davies shouted.
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Bates allowed an innocent man to go to jail for his crime.
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Don't get her mixed up in your plan - she's just an innocent girl.
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He's so innocent that anyone can take advantage of him.
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I'm sorry. It was just an innocent mistake.
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Jett maintains that he is completely innocent of the charges against him.
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Nobody believes that she's innocent .
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Under criminal law people are presumed innocent until proved guilty.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And could they be innocent ?.
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Dickinson sailed down in slow, sweeping curves, feeling strangely innocent .
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Harry Belafonte was Joe, an innocent young soldier.
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Masterfully, in that moment, Pennington shades Peter's love innocent rather than tawdry.
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Observations of the most innocent type.
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Perhaps it was by pure chance that the other woman had been there, and Matthew was entirely innocent .
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Police Officer Jack Wronski said two of the victims were known gang members; the other was an innocent bystander.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
find
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Now a jury in Albany, New York, has found the four policemen innocent of any criminal wrongdoing.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He's such an innocent ; anyone can take advantage of him.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both John and Donner, in different ways, are innocents, Donner surprisingly and dangerously so.
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Moral patients are, for the most part, innocents.
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She is a girl of about 12, and she faces the camera with the calm composure of an innocent .
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These guys are holy innocents, in love with their worlds and their words.
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Unfortunately the innocents get hurt, never the criminals behind the scenes.