innocently
adverb /ˈɪnəsntli/
/ˈɪnəsntli/
- without being guilty of a crime or doing something wrong
- The lawyer says that his client was acting innocently.
- without being responsible for or directly involved in a crime, war, etc. but suffering harm because of it
- He was shot at through a window while innocently walking past the house.
- in a way that shows little experience of the world, especially of sexual matters, or of evil or unpleasant things
- The tale is innocently romantic.
- in a way that is not intended to cause harm or upset somebody synonym harmlessly (1)
- The dispute had begun innocently enough.
- while pretending to know less about something than you do
- ‘Oh, Sue went too, did she?’ I asked innocently.