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Guilty - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Guilty : adj
1: 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" [ant: innocent]
2: showing a sense of guilt; "a guilty look"; "the hangdog and
shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric Linklater
[syn: hangdog, shamefaced, shamed]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Guilty : \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.
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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