Guilty

Word GUILTY
Character 6
Hyphenation guilt y
Pronunciations /ˈɡɪl.ti/

Definitions and meanings of "Guilty"

What do we mean by guilty?

Responsible for a reprehensible act; culpable. adjective

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. adjective

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.

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

Conscious; cognizant. adjective

Condemned to payment. adjective

Responsible for a dishonest act. adjective

Judged to have committed a crime. adjective

Having a sense of guilt adjective

Blameworthy. adjective

A plea by a defendant who does not contest a charge. noun

A verdict of a judge or jury on a defendant judged to have committed a crime. noun

A plea by a defendant who does not contest a charge.

A verdict of a judge or jury on a defendant judged to have committed a crime.

One who is declared guilty of a crime.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Guilty

The word "guilty" in example sentences

_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. ❋ Various (N/A)

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_. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

The term 'guilty conscience' would appear to imply that the person had... ❋ Forbes Blogs (2011)

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 (2011)

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. ❋ Mary Higgins Clark (2009)

You know, I don ` t want to use the term guilty necessarily but implicated by association or however you want to call it. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Hectic Gourmet, one of my guilty pleasures besides using the phrase "guilty pleasure", is the FOX reality show, Kitchen Nightmares . ❋ Harmon Leon (2011)

Don’t use the word guilty in civil-case decisions. ❋ PAUL R. MARTIN (2002)

Now, you can say that you can't make a direct connection between these two events, but when you have that number of people who -- and they write things on the Web sites like I've been driven to despair or I'm suffering from depression as a result of all of the attacks on me, I'm getting 20 hate mails a day, at a certain point you have to really stop and think about what is the price of what you called our guilty pleasure of right now is just kind of been, you know, circus performers for us, what is now regular entertainment that used to be filled by trained actors and is now just regular folks. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It does mean that not encouraging women to breastfeed because it makes formula feeding women feel guilty is unfair to babies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Your guilty is becoming MOST obvious every time you think you now must speak to cover your evil ways and crazed mind! ❋ Unknown (2009)

By the same token, no one imagines that the sometimes over-the-top criticism of "America" of which even I might occasionally have been guilty, is an attack on Americans as a people. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The mere fact that we had to worry that they might not find this piece of human filth guilty is simply frightening. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The fact that that police report was enough for this guy to plead guilty is scary. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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