not guilty

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A formal plea by a defendant of not being culpable for the crime with which the defendant is charged.
    — If you do not plead, a plea of not guilty will be entered for you.
  2. A verdict or formal finding by the legal system that a defendant is not culpable for the crime with which the defendant was charged.
    — My heart beats through five not guilties. Six, seven, nine, eleven. Seventeen not guilties. The prosecutor's lips curl.
  3. A member of a jury or tribunal supporting acquittal, or a vote cast in support of acquittal.
    — Two not guilties. Seven for conviction. "I'm a 'not guilty,'" she said.
  4. A person who has been acquitted of a crime.
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of a person, legally innocent of a crime which they have been accused of in a court of law.
    — He was found not guilty because there was a reasonable doubt.
  2. Innocent. nonstandard
    — The jury said he was not guilty. I knew he wouldn't have done something like that.

词形变化

not guilties plural

词汇关系

并列词
guilty no contest nolo contendere not proven
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