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ADJECTIVE guilty COMPARATIVE guilter SUPERLATIVE guiltiest

guilty English

Meaning guilty meaning

What does guilty mean?

Definitions in simple English

guilty Adjective

— If you are guilty of something, you did it. This is usually for doing a bad thing. — If you feel guilty you feel bad about something you did. — If you are found guilty of a crime, a court of law said you did do that crime.

guilty

— adjective responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act guilty of murder the guilty person secret guilty deeds — adjective (= hangdog, shamefaced) showing a sense of guilt a guilty look the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy — Eric Linklater

Synonyms guilty synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as guilty?

guilty English » English

culpable sinful criminal at fault wrong hangdog blameworthy to blame sorry sinner shamefaced shamed responsible remorseful owing offending offender incorrect guilt bad ashamed accountable wicked violation vice the person to blame sinned sin shame sentenced scandal responsible for reprehensible remorse regretful perpetrator offense offended mistake liable indicted indebted in debt guilty of an offense guilty conscience feel guilty faulty error erroneous delinquent

Topics guilty topics

What do people use guilty to talk about?

Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Condemn, find guilty

What words are used of the action of condemning a person?

recover damages render a guilty verdict hand down a conviction
What words refer to the person who is condemned?

condemned man convict guilty party

Language and thought Want Decide, plan

Cast lots

What kind of decisions are made by these methods?

deciding who goes first in a game deciding who is guilty

Examples guilty examples

How do I use guilty in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom felt guilty.

The accused is innocent until proven guilty.

Tom is guilty.

I still think Tom is guilty.

I'm starting to feel a little guilty.

Is Tom innocent or guilty?

Prosecutors in court have to substantiate their claims in order to prove a suspect is guilty.

The news article painted the defendant as a guilty man, even though he had been proven innocent.

You make me feel so guilty.

Mr White soon began to feel guilty.

There is no denying that the prisoner is guilty.

I feel guilty about having told a lie.

I feel guilty.

I feel guilty about it.

I was convinced that he was guilty.

The court found him guilty of stealing money.

We are not alone in believing that he is not guilty.

If he is innocent, it follows that his wife is guilty.

They say he is guilty, but I believe the contrary.

You are guilty of murder.

Insofar as we know, he is guilty.

We hold that he is not guilty.

I believe he is not guilty of the crime.

I have a guilty conscience about that.

The evidence is laid out before us. Considering that, together with the fact that he has no alibi, there's no question that he's the guilty one.

It is clear that he is guilty.

Movie subtitles

At any rate, it's a fact that Sir Jeremiah is guilty.

I have the advantage of actually being guilty and I don't actually work here, so no one actually gets hurt.

It's a little late to develop a guilty conscience. - I don't think.

Now, some of them have been trying to help while some of them have been lying to make the others look guilty.

Every woman's guilty pleasure.

I'm feeling guilty.

A woman suspected of witchcraft is thrown into the water to find out whether she is guilty or not.

I plead not guilty.

In the morning, the two guilty spouses meet up at the threshold of their home, a broken home.

The guilty man must have a record somewhere.

I am guilty first lieutenant Karamasoff you are accused of the murder of your father Fjodor Karamasoff who has been beaten to death tonight the old man is dead?

You are found guilty.

Guilty or not guilty?

I'm not guilty but I can't prove it.

Nobody is guilty of my death.

If I'd listened, we'd have left together and you'd know she wasn't guilty.

In the name of the French Republic, this court finds the accused, Mata Hari guilty of espionage and of communicating military information to the enemy.

The way I see it, Brown here looks guilty.

Chicolini, I bet you 8 to one we find you guilty.

If found guilty, you'll be shot.

Where as Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum have been found guilty of burglary they will be dunked and thereafter exiled to bogey land forever!

Whereas Tom-Tom Piper has been found guilty of pignapping He will be immediately banished to Bogeyland.

He wouldn't ask you to handle it if he were guilty, would he?

I've been guilty of leading you down the garden path.

John Mayer has more than 40 companies. He also has a lot of properties abroad. Furthermore, Club M's members are guilty of illegal possession of passports in many cases.

BEYOND THAT LOOKS GUILTY. I'M REALLY NOT INTERESTED IN YOUR POINTERS, THANKS.

The student Armand de Foix has been found guilty for the death of the Spanish ambassador, Don Diego, and is sentenced to death. Your Majesty, she is already here!

The student Armand de Foix has been found guilty of the death of the Spanish ambassador, Don Diego, and is sentenced to death.

But I swear I'm not guilty.

Guilty.

Not guilty?

News and current affairs

Generals Atanase Stanculescu and Mihai Chitac were found guilty of ordering the killings of dozens of innocent people in Timisoara in 1989.

To the first two counts, Greenspan now pleads guilty.

Greenspan also pleads guilty to a mistake in early 2001.

Greenspan also pleads guilty to misunderstanding the character of the Bush administration.

But how serious are these policy-political crimes to which Greenspan now pleads guilty?

Here, Greenspan holds his ground, and pleads not guilty.

Whatever US courts say about it, abducting people all over the world, locking them up for years without establishing that they are guilty of anything, and subjecting them to harsh and abusive treatment is a flagrant violation of international law.

How should it be judged by those attempting to end the practice of exempting from punishment government officials guilty of monstrous crimes?

No secret file is being used to secure a guilty verdict.

A new prosecutor revived the investigation, reinstated the charges, and balked at accepting a plea of not guilty due to insanity.

So only a guilty verdict would suffice, but it still had to be qualified with a finding of insanity.

Those who were on the wrong side of the political divide were not only guilty of erroneous views; they were seen as wrong in their essence, and therefore to be condemned and hated.

Neither China nor anyone else was found guilty this time.

Senior bank managers and regulators have a common interest in developing a more effective system - one that punishes the guilty and creates the right incentives for the future.

When we do, they feel like a guilty pleasure.

That status matters, because achieving it will make it more difficult for Chinese firms to be found guilty of dumping goods on overseas markets.

The US is not the only guilty party.

So I readily plead guilty to my economist critic's charge.

Because Taiwan has not allowed itself to become a victim, the world simply does not feel guilty about it, and so ignores it.

These citizens are guilty only of belonging to the three tribes (Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa) that spawned the rebels who took up arms against the government a few years ago.

These countries had not been guilty of irresponsible and inflationary fiscal and monetary policies, for which austerity is the natural punishment and cure.

The owners were then asked whether their dog looked guilty.

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