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[ UK /ɡˈɪlti/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɪɫti/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. showing a sense of guilt
    a guilty look
    the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy
  2. 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.
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