adjective
acquitted
declared not guilty of a specific offense or crime; legally blameless
In a sentence
Six example sentences with acquitted, each labelled with its topic.
The acquitted engineer returned to work on Monday, though the inquiry into the bridge design continued for another year.
Law
Investors were slow to forgive the acquitted executive, and the share price stayed flat for three more quarters.
Business
Newspapers of the period rarely printed follow-ups, so an acquitted defendant left court with the accusation still attached.
History
The acquitted man walks out of the courthouse in the final shot, and the film never tells us whether he did it.
Movies
The acquitted brother returns to the village in act two, and the town treats him as if the verdict had gone the other way.
Literature
An acquitted mayor can legally run again, but the voters remembered the trial far more clearly than the verdict.
Politics
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