GUILTY: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | 'giltee
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| Matching Terms: | | Guilt, guilt by association, guilt feelings, guilt pang, guilt trip, Guiltily, guiltiness, Guiltless, guiltlessness, guilt-ridden, Guilt-sick, guiltware, guilty conscience, Guiltylike
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- [adj] showing a sense of guilt; "a guilty look"; "the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric Linklater
- [adj] responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act; or marked by guilt; "guilty of murder"; "the guilty person"; "secret guilty deeds"; "a guilty conscience"; "guilty behavior"
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| | Synonyms: | | ashamed(p), at fault, blamable, blameable, blameful, blameworthy, bloodguilty, censurable, chargeable, condemned, conscience-smitten, convicted, criminal, culpable, delinquent, finable, fineable, guilt-ridden, hangdog, indictable, punishable, red-handed, shamed, shamefaced |
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| | Antonyms: | | clean-handed, guiltless, innocent | | |
| | See Also: | | inculpative, inculpatory, unrighteous | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Guilt"y\, a. [Compar. {Gultier}; superl. {Guiltiest}.]
[AS. gyltig liable. See {Guilt}.]
1. Having incurred guilt; criminal; morally delinquent;
wicked; chargeable with, or responsible for, something
censurable; justly exposed to penalty; -- used with of,
and usually followed by the crime, sometimes by the
punishment.
They answered and said, He is guilty of death.
--Matt. xxvi.
66.
Nor he, nor you, were guilty of the strife.
--Dryden.
2. Evincing or indicating guilt; involving guilt; as, a
guilty look; a guilty act; a guilty feeling.
3. Conscious; cognizant. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
4. Condemned to payment. [Obs. & R.] --Dryden.
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| | Related Terms: | | accountable, amiss, answerable, apologetic, arraignable, ashamed, at fault, blamable, blameful, blameworthy, censurable, conscience-stricken, contrite, criminal, culpable, delinquent, embarrassed, faulty, impeachable, impeached, implicated, incriminated, inculpated, indictable, indicted, involved, offending, peccant, penitent, red-faced, regretful, remorseful, repentant, reprehensible, reproachable, reprovable, responsible, rueful, sheepish, sinful, sorrowful, sorry, to blame, unholy, wrong |
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