Suspectless

//ˈsʌspɛktləs// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    With no criminal suspects.

    "After some initial successes, agencies began to craft coordinated strategies for submitting and accepting unsolved cases. These strategies must include re-educating detectives, who were told for 25 years that suspectless cases would not be worked."

  2. 2
    Not suspecting; having no suspicion. obsolete

    "the innocent princes were , suspectless of danger"

  3. 3
    Not suspected; not mistrusted. obsolete

    "Suspectless have I travell'd all the town thro', / And in this merchant's shape won much acquaintance"

Example

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"After some initial successes, agencies began to craft coordinated strategies for submitting and accepting unsolved cases. These strategies must include re-educating detectives, who were told for 25 years that suspectless cases would not be worked."

Etymology

From suspect + -less.

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