Acceptable
Acceptable adjective - Of a level of quality that meets one's needs or standards.
Innocent and acceptable are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Innocent" instead an adjective "Acceptable".
Innocent
Innocent adjective - Free from sin.
Acceptable and innocent are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Acceptable" instead an adjective "Innocent".
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- Antonia Gavilan de Logroño may be a homicidal, slightly deranged Knight Templar witch spirit, but the deaths of innocent people as collateral damage from her attacks on vampires are not acceptable to her.
- Judge Dredd also followed this trend; from the early comics, where a Judge would risk his life to save a single child, to later when it was acceptable behavior to gun down one innocent if it meant hitting the two perps next to them, to some storylines where wholesale carnage was status quo.
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Their turf wars result in henchmen killing each other, as well as innocent bystanders who happen to get caught in the hail of Thompson bullets, and they consider each other's wives, mistresses, and children to be acceptable collateral damage.
Source: Anime / 91 Days
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