not guilty
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.61 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A formal plea by a defendant of not being culpable for the crime with which the defendant is charged.
noun
A verdict or formal finding by the legal system that a defendant is not culpable for the crime with which the defendant was charged.
adj
Example Sentences
- "If you do not plead, a plea of not guilty will be entered for you."
- "My heart beats through five not guilties. Six, seven, nine, eleven. Seventeen not guilties. The prosecutor's lips curl."
- "Two not guilties. Seven for conviction. "I'm a 'not guilty,'" she said."
- "The not guilties walked out and went to work if they had jobs; the guilties were hauled away to spend maybe thirty days on the county farm growing cabbage."
- "He was found not guilty because there was a reasonable doubt."
- "The jury said he was not guilty. I knew he wouldn't have done something like that."