half-guilty

It had cost seven dollars and a half, and, though it was grander than anything she had dreamed of possessing, the extravagance of it had worried her in a half-guilty way all day.

CHAPTER I 2010

This half-guilty awareness is masked by a good deal of diatribe, against the collapse of literary standards in general and of the standard of cultural coverage in The New York Times in particular.

Zuckerman Undone 2007

This half-guilty awareness is masked by a good deal of diatribe, against the collapse of literary standards in general and of the standard of cultural coverage in The New York Times in particular.

Zuckerman Undone 2007

It seemed as if Barnet expected a half-guilty look upon

Wessex Tales 2006

She would have to tame her half-guilty imagination.

Stork Naked Anthony, Piers 2006

Her mind whirled as she smiled a shy, half-guilty welcome.

Beast Master's Circus Norton, Andre 2004

His face was darkened with the stormiest passions, and his gaze was fixed upon the Frenchwoman, who was standing with a look half-guilty, half-imploring, at a little distance.

The Evil Guest 2003

Mary Small would definitely smoke, half-defiant, half-guilty.

A Letter of Mary King, Laurie R. 1996

Mary Small would definitely smoke, half-defiant, half-guilty.

A Letter of Mary King, Laurie R. 1996

What she had bequeathed to Shrewsbury and to him in absence was the sheltering shadow of her right hand, and a half-guilty, half-sacred memory of an affection and kindness almost personal.

The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992