Difference between Innocent and Ingenuous

INNOCENT vs INGENUOUS: NOUN

Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless.
Free from the guilt of a particular crime or offense.
Lacking, deprived, or devoid of something.
Unaware.
Not exposed to or familiar with something specified; ignorant.
Betraying or suggesting no deception or guile; artless.
Not experienced or worldly; naive.
Candid; straightforward.
Not dangerous or harmful; innocuous.
Within, allowed by, or sanctioned by the law; lawful.
Not guilty of a specific crime or offense; legally blameless.
Uncorrupted by evil, malice, or wrongdoing; sinless.
Used of things; lacking sense or awareness
Free from sin
Lacking intent or capacity to injure
Free from evil or guilt
Morally free from guilt; guiltless; not tainted with sin; pure; upright.
Lacking (something).
Having no knowledge (of something).
Lacking in sophistication or worldliness
Lawful; permitted.
Simple; artless; foolish.
A party who has not notice of a fact tainting a litigated transaction with illegality.
Free from guilt, sin, or immorality.
Bearing no legal responsibility for a wrongful act.
Naive; artless.
Harmless in intent.
Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture.

Not knowledgeable about something specified
In pathology, benign; not malignant.
Completely wanting or lacking
Free from any moral wrong; not tainted with sin; upright; pure: as, innocent children; an innocent action.
Free from legal or specific wrong; guiltless: as, to be innocent of crime.
Free from illegality: as, innocent goods carried to a belligerent.
Artless; naïve.
Simple; wanting knowledge or sense; imbecile; idiotic.
Small, modest, and pretty: applied to children and flowers.
Free from any quality that can cause physical or moral injury; harmless in effect; innoxious.

Freeborn; of honorable extraction.
Generous; noble: as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal.
Free from restraint or reserve; frank; open; candid: used of persons or things: as, an ingenuous mind; an ingenuous confession.
Same as ingenious.
Synonyms Frank, Naïve, etc. (see candid); unreserved, artless, guileless, straightforward, truthful.
Not devious

Irreproachable, Unimpeachable, Not guilty, Virtuous, Acquitted, Absolved, Vindicated, Harmless, Ignorant, Exculpated, Sinless, Naive, Exonerated, Blameless, Guiltless

Devious, Mischievous, Clever, Childlike, Ingenious, Guileless, Nave, Simplistic, Open, Undistorted, Candid, Innocent, Naif, Naive, Artless

Irreproachable, Unimpeachable, Not guilty, Virtuous, Acquitted, Absolved, Vindicated, Harmless, Ignorant, Exculpated, Sinless, Naive, Exonerated, Blameless, Guiltless

Devious, Mischievous, Clever, Childlike, Ingenious, Guileless, Nave, Simplistic, Open, Undistorted, Candid, Innocent, Naif, Naive, Artless

Names have been changed to protect the innocent.
In criminal cases, the defendant is presumed innocent.
The innocent spouse laudably can readmit the other spouse to conjugal life; in this case the innocent spouse renounces the right to separate.
If the innocent spouse prevails for tax relief, the IRS should issue a partial release of any lien for the innocent spouse.
Remember, you are innocent until proven guilty, not innocent until some unreliable witness points at you and calls you a criminal.
People think he is innocent because they want to believe he is innocent.
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Such apostates seek, in all dispensations, to bring destruction on the innocent and to shed innocent blood, or consent thereto.
This innocent looking Santa Claus app is not as innocent as it seems.
Speaking Deatj the innocent, my next point, an innocent person serving life can be released from death row.

Uncomplicated, brightly colored and almost childlike in style, the animations lend ingenuous sweetness to a difficult situation.
Patriotism is an imaginative passion, and imagination is ingenuous.
Old Von Moltke, with ingenuous militarism, exclaimed that London would be a splendid city to loot.
Attackers forever look for ingenuous ways to park their Malware into mobile phones.
Carmelite, as he listened to the naive observation of his ingenuous pupil.
His face was ingenuous, and displayed a fair degree of intelligence.
Tess widened her eyes, so ingenuous as to be disingenuous.
Indefinitely abrahamitical lachrymations very wrily seethes toward the ingenuous accolade.
Ah, Temple, ingenuous youth, what a sharp fellow you are!
Guileless, upright, ingenuous; conduct that is thoroughly honest.