Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Responsible for a reprehensible act; culpable.
- adjective Law Found to have violated a criminal law by a jury or judge.
- adjective Deserving blame, as for an error.
- adjective Suffering from or prompted by a sense of guilt.
- adjective Suggesting or entailing guilt.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having incurred guilt; not innocent; morally or legally delinquent; culpable; specifically, having committed a crime or an offense, or having violated a law, civil or moral, by an overt act or by neglect, and by reason of that act or neglect liable to punishment.
- Characterized by or constituting guilt or criminality; of a culpable character; wicked: as, a guilty deed; a guilty intent.
- Pertaining or relating to guilt; indicating or expressing guilt; employed in or connected with wrong-doing.
- Liable; owing; liable to the penalty: with of.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective 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. - adjective Evincing or indicating guilt; involving guilt
- adjective obsolete Conscious; cognizant.
- adjective Obs. & R. Condemned to payment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Responsible for adishonest act . - adjective law
Judged to havecommitted acrime . - adjective Having a
sense ofguilt - adjective
Blameworthy . - noun law A
plea by adefendant who does notcontest acharge . - noun law A
verdict of ajudge orjury on a defendant judged to have committed a crime. - noun One who is declared guilty of a crime.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective showing a sense of guilt
- adjective responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act
Etymologies
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Examples
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_They found the man not guilty and they found her guilty_, but Judge Avery set the verdict aside and ordered the case _nolle prossed_ against her.
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II. i.104 (286,8) [He, who shall speak for her, is far off guilty, But that he speaks] [T: far of] It is strange that Mr. Theobald could not find out that _far_ off _guilty_, signifies, _guilty in a remote degree_.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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The term 'guilty conscience' would appear to imply that the person had...
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The term 'guilty conscience' would appear to imply that the person had...
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As I reported on the Hectic Gourmet, one of my guilty pleasures besides using the phrase "guilty pleasure", is the FOX reality show, Kitchen Nightmares.
Harmon Leon: Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares: A Guilty Culinary Pleasure Harmon Leon 2011
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As I reported on the Hectic Gourmet, one of my guilty pleasures besides using the phrase "guilty pleasure", is the FOX reality show, Kitchen Nightmares.
Harmon Leon: Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares: A Guilty Culinary Pleasure Harmon Leon 2011
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I only wish I could be there with them when they hear this, Mike said, thinking back to that awful moment in court when the word guilty had been repeated twelve times.
Just Take My Heart Mary Higgins Clark 2009
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You know, I don ` t want to use the term guilty necessarily but implicated by association or however you want to call it.
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Hectic Gourmet, one of my guilty pleasures besides using the phrase "guilty pleasure", is the FOX reality show, Kitchen Nightmares .
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Harmon Leon 2011
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Don’t use the word guilty in civil-case decisions.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002
zc0000 commented on the word guilty
adjective not noun
March 6, 2010