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_.
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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
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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
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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.
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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 .
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Don’t use the word guilty in civil-case decisions.
zc0000 commented on the word guilty
adjective not noun
March 6, 2010