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arglos (adj/adv)
   innocent, innocently

Mit Adolf Hitler starben 1945 auch sechs arglose Kinder.
Six innocent children also died with Adolf Hitler in 1945.
Ein Sechsjähriger bringt arglos ein Campingbesteck mit Messer in die Schule - und soll dafür 45 Tage in eine Besserungsanstalt.
A six-year-old innocently takes a set of camping utensils with a knife to school – and could spend 45 days in reform school for it.

Related:
die Arglosigkeit innocence
arg (adj/adv) bad(ly), terrible; evil, wicked (ärger, am ärgsten)
das Arg malice

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