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guilt English

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What does guilt mean?
Definitions in simple English

guilt

If someone feels guilt, they feel responsibility for doing something wrong.

guilt

the state of having committed an offense remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense

Synonyms guilt synonyms

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Topics guilt topics

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Examples guilt examples

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Simple sentences

The guilt lies with him.
Everything points to his guilt.
The fingerprints on the knife attest to her guilt.
The thief admitted his guilt.
The thief reluctantly admitted his guilt.
All the evidence points to his guilt.
My guilt leaves no room for doubt.
His guilt leaves no room for doubt.
There is no room for doubt about his guilt.
He confessed his guilt.
He was unconscious of his guilt.
He admitted his guilt.
The detective found absolute proof of the man's guilt.
I'm afraid he will never admit his guilt.
It doesn't matter whether she admits her guilt or not.
She had a vague feeling of guilt.
I still think it's unlikely that we'll find any evidence to prove Tom's guilt.
Tom has admitted his guilt.
We're all convinced of her guilt.

Movie subtitles

I was racked with guilt.
Guilt!
Murdoch will end up a Catholic wracked with guilt searching for salvation at the end of a noose.
Does that mean I'm admitting guilt?
Neither the Marquis' search nor the Marquise's day to day behaviour revealed the slightest evidence of guilt.
And also Medardus expiated his guilt.
I feel all the weight of my guilt.
That looks like an admission of guilt.
This awful guilt which I know will never leave me.
No lynching can be justified, though sometimes attempts are made to whitewash them by citing the confessions of or proofs of guilt against, the by now silent corpse.
The defense's only alibi of a man and woman who could step forward, by waving a magic wand absolve the accused of all guilt, is so fantastic that I shall not presume upon your valuable time by refuting it.
I don't need the aid of the supernatural to read the guilt written all over your faces.
I have never been fully convinced of Dreyfus' guilt.
I gave this proof of Esterhazy's guilt to the general staff.
Sometimes guilt.
But darling, every bit of evidence points to the man's guilt.
Dr. Sylvester says Stephen has a guilt complex.
I am without guilt.
Really, I didn't. Maybe it's my own sense of guilt, but I have an unpleasant feeling.. I'mgoingto be madetopaythepiper for what I'm doing tonight.
If, as we have cause to believe, we find Yves Normand's body, your guilt will be clear, Mr Decrey.
Isn't that why you're now trying to undo what you've done. by taking some part of Stephen Tolliver's guilt to yourself?
An admission of guilt?
We must not concern ourselves with her guilt, but with her redemption.
Is that a sign of guilt or innocence, McPherson?
And the guilt is mine.
The guilt's driving me crazy.
The Prosecution has offered testimony by which it hopes to prove.. Beyond any reasonable doubt, the guilt of the defendant.
All guilt is avenged on earth, my friend.
You think that your admission of guilt will erase everything?
The legal guilt is theirs and must be reported to the authorities.
I have a dreadful sense of guilt.
What not put upon his spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt of our great quell?
If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, for it must seem their guilt.
She alone bears the guilt here!
Sometimes it's to expiate guilt.
It was guilt.
Whom those facts affect, whether they mean guilt or innocence, is your job.

News and current affairs

The complexities of black anger, white guilt, and of black, and white fear, are so vexed that most Americans prefer not to talk about race at all.
If it is driven by a Western guilt complex that assumes that the solution simply lies in greater empathy for the Muslim predicament, then the skeptics are bound to be vindicated.
But, given the brutality of President Bashar al-Assad's regime, no one can doubt the lengths to which it would go to hide its guilt.
Like good theater, terrorism always acts out some moral drama, and to strike terror in the public mind, terrorists must act in public, without guilt or remorse.
But suppose we try to define the attacks of September 11, 2001, as terrorism by using the following formula: a violent, organized, and public attack by private parties on other civilians, without guilt, regardless of the justice of the cause.
Some terrorists might feel remorse and guilt about their actions.
Until the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel's image benefited from living memories of the Shoah and the silent guilt of an entire generation of Europeans.
Each delineates a sacred sphere of freedom and order, innocence, spirituality and justice from our everyday world of chaos, bondage, injustice and guilt.
Here we can be childishly selfish, we can gratify our thirst for success, power and domination - all without guilt.
After years of guilt and deprivation, the Germans were back, as it were.
As depression worsens, feelings of extreme sadness and hopelessness combine with low self-esteem, guilt, memory loss, and concentration difficulties to bring about a severely painful state of mind.
The Nuremberg trials exposed the guilt of the Nazi leaders beyond doubt, if indeed any such doubt was left in people's minds.
Global alarm bells might cause pangs of guilt for wealthy Westerners, but they don't give us an adequate understanding of what's going on.
Should the public's appropriate reaction be guilt or shame?
The complexities of black anger, white guilt, and of black, and white fear, are so vexed that most Americans prefer not to talk about race at all. The field is too full of mines.
Guilt, after all, is a poor motivator for international action.
But perhaps we should feel some guilt.
The old continent suffers from two guilt complexes that have much to do with Israel: the colonial and the Jewish complex.
Ours is a guilt culture; theirs a shame culture.
As Israel's policies have become increasingly indefensible, the Germans' will to shape national policy independent of Holocaust guilt has grown even stronger.
Simply put, historic guilt is no longer adequate to compel Germany to support Israel's wrongheaded policies - especially when those policies are victimizing another group, the Palestinians.

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