Not guilty
Not guilty adjective - Declared not guilty of a specific offense or crime; legally blameless.
Right and not guilty are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Right" instead an adjective phrase "Not guilty".
Right
Right adjective - Following an original exactly.
Not guilty and right are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Not guilty" instead an adjective "Right".
Both terms in one sentence
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Similarly, no matter if you know exactly the right things to do to gain a not guilty verdict during the early trial, you still have to fight your way out of prison.
Source: Video Game / Chrono Trigger -
But he feels something's not right about the confession, and following his Crusading Lawyer ideals, he stops the Not Guilty verdict in order to further question her and uncover the truth: That she is also completely innocent of the murder.
Source: Save the Villain
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Right and Not guilty. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/not_guilty/right
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Right or Not guilty. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/not_guilty/right.
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