guilty

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Uncovering the truth and punishing the guilty should be a mission for all investigating authorities concerned.

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  1. adjective Responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act; deserving of blame; culpable: guilty of cheating; the guilty party.
  2. adjective Law Adjudged to have committed a crime.
  3. adjective Suffering from or prompted by a sense of guilt: a guilty conscience.
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  • To justify the guilty was a role she would not undertake. —  The Alington Inheritance - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 31
  • You operate on the premise that it was only Montwright the guilty was after. —  Garwood, Julie - Gentle Warrior
  • Clean of conscience, she in turn set no further conflict working in Estár—the guilty are always the most prone to establish complementary guilt, and the most unforgiving thereafter. —  Red As Blood
  • Uncovering the truth and punishing the guilty should be a mission for all investigating authorities concerned. —  The Times of India
  • In the Spanish Inquisition the guilty were always given a chance to repent. —  The Reality Check
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  1. from Middle English gilty, gylty, gulty, gelty, from Anglo-Saxon gyltig, guilty, from gylt, guilt: see guilt, n.
 

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