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n. a person who, although present at some event without take part in it, is affected by it deleteriously
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Innocent bystander means a viewer, watcher, onlooker, a guiltless witness of a crime.
Innocent Bystander may refer to:
Usage examples of "innocent bystander".
Diana handed the shoebox to the clerk and reached into the possibilities just in time to keep an innocent Bystander from committing mayhem on an angel, as justified as that mayhem may have been.
This man you've apprehended must have stumbled in at the wrong time, an innocent bystander.
At times like this it was the innocent bystander who stood to lose his rank or his ears at the clank of a falling molecule.
These weren't encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbow's arrow could send it through an innocent bystander a hundred yards away rather than the innocent bystander at whom it was aimed.
With nothing to connect him to the car or even to the disbanded Life Guard, he was the Innocent Bystander.
Spode didn't have to have logical reasons for setting about people he wasn't fond of, and it might be that he was like Florence and would work off his grouch on the first available innocent bystander.
The President is not involved, Rachel told herself, clinging to her hope that the President she respected so much more than her own father was an innocent bystander in this mysterious incident.