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"innocent" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often childlike (9 letters).
Definitions
(used of things) lacking sense or awareness
Word origin
From Middle English innocent, from Old French innocent, inocent, borrowed from Latin innocēns (“harmless, inoffensive”), from in- (“not”) + nocēns, present participle of noceō (“to hurt”). By surface analysis, in- (“not”) + nocent (“harmful; guilty”). Displaced native Old English unsċyldiġ.
Used in a sentence
“I'm sure there's an innocent explanation for all this.”
“The situation certainly looked bad, but it turned out that everything was innocent.”
“to offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb to appease an angry god”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Free from guilt”8 letters
02“Not guilty”8 letters
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