[
UK
/ɡˈɪlti/
]
[ US /ˈɡɪɫti/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɪɫti/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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showing a sense of guilt
a guilty look
the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy -
responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act
guilty of murder
the guilty person
secret guilty deeds
How To Use guilty In A Sentence
- A damning indictment for a Paul Bartel film, Lust in the Dust is found guilty of being bland and lame.
- I'm afraid he is guilty of a good deal of invention.
- Civilian life affords us the luxury of a good deal of deontology — better to let ten guilty men go free, and so on. One Waterboarding Is a Tragedy; A Million Is a Statistic
- Mum has been a lot more cheerful since Quigley was declared bankrupt, insane and guilty of fraud.
- Incommon law countries such as Canada, thetest of criminalliabilityis expressed by theLatinphrase, actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea, which means that “the act does not make a person guilty unless the mind is also guilty”. Man Not Criminally Responsible for Greyhound Bus Beheading; Victim’s Family Call for Punishment : Law is Cool
- But to Mr. Robin there is no actually existing Burkeanism anywhere, making those who cite the ideal of a reasonable, pragmatic, nonreactionary conservatism guilty of the kind of utopianism the left is more commonly faulted for. NYT > Home Page
- I feel guilty that Gwen and I have such a one-sided relationship.
- I was fed up of having to avoid certain foods and when I finished the chicken I felt guilty.
- Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor. Sigmund Freud
- We have all been guilty of it: blurring the lines between reality and fiction.