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INNOCENTLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a naively innocent manner
Example:
she smiled at him innocently
Classified under:
Pertainym:
innocent (lacking in sophistication or worldliness)
Sense 2
Meaning:
In a not unlawful manner
Example:
he claimed to have purchased the contraband innocently
Classified under:
Pertainym:
innocent (free from evil or guilt)
Context examples:
If I could ever work out his restoration, as I have so innocently been the cause of his decline!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"Why, Jo, how could I, when he was so fond of you?" asked Beth, as innocently as a child.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
“Dear me!” said the Doctor, innocently.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I expressed my regret for having innocently touched upon a theme that roused him so much.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“Why, Doady?” inquired Dora, looking up, innocently, from her drawing.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“I don't know that it will be a girl, yet, ma'am,” said my mother innocently.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
As to marriage, and fortune, and all that, I believe I was almost as innocently undesigning then, as when I loved little Em'ly.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"Is something happening?" I inquired innocently.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
"Did he go?" I asked innocently.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
"You resemble the advertisement of the man," she went on innocently. "You know the advertisement of the man—"
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
