noun
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A plea by a defendant who does not contest a charge.
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A verdict of a judge or jury on a defendant judged to have committed a crime.
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One who is declared guilty of a crime.
adjective
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Responsible for a dishonest act.
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He was guilty of cheating at cards.
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Judged to have committed a crime.
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The guilty man was led away.
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Having a sense of guilt.
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Do you have a guilty conscience?
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Blameworthy.
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I have a guilty secret.
Examples of guilty in a Sentence
The men are as guilty as she is.
The old man feels he is guilty, but cannot change himself.
She glanced up at them, a guilty look on her face.
I'm sure you feel guilty, but it's fortunate that you weren't with them.
You brought our man closer to being identified than anyone else so you should kiss off any guilty feelings.
Kiera tossed the thoughts around in her head, guilty at the thought of ditching Evelyn yet offended that Evey thought to keep her here without telling her.
She felt guilty enough being there.
If he was guilty, he probably deserved it, but is family didn't.
Nicholas was allowed no respite and no peace, and those who had seemed to pity the old man--the cause of their losses (if they were losses)--now remorselessly pursued the young heir who had voluntarily undertaken the debts and was obviously not guilty of contracting them.
I remembered the name Martha mentioned, Willard Humphries, thought guilty, but jailed for a lesser crime.
How could anyone who loved so thoroughly be guilty of the things she suspected?
Dean felt guilty about pursuing the case but made a note to try and speak with the youth.
She met his guilty gaze.
Xander sat back on his heels, guilty and uncertain about what he'd done.
Sometime in the 40s she got it in her head that they were violating people, and developed a guilty conscience.
Why did she feel guilty about this whole mess, when she hadn't done anything to get herself into it?
She had been as guilty of snuffing his pride as he had been of putting her down.
When the kitchen door opened suddenly, they jerked apart and turned guilty faces to Sarah, whose expression made it clear she had seen and comprehended their actions.
You feel guilty for dragging me into this and are obligated to help me?
Still, she felt guilty - and confused.
She is not guilty of anything more than you.
I won't tell you how guilty you are.
I think everyone was guilty of staring at her at least once - if for no other reason, wondering if she was going to fall out of her dress.
Sarah and Giddon both seemed content with the arrangement, but she felt guilty about the money she earned... or didn't earn.
A few days later Nuncomar was thrown into prison on a charge of forgery preferred by a private prosecutor, tried before the supreme court sitting in bar, found guilty by a jury of Englishmen and sentenced to be hanged.
Feeling guilty, she used the card Len had given her and dialed his number.
One of the minions in Betsy's organization had arranged for a pleasure car for her weekend, courtesy of her boss who felt guilty for her frequent out of town travel.
A minute later Sonya came in with a frightened, guilty, and scared look.
As guilty as she felt, she wasn't willing to make a deal with him to protect the human she'd condemned.
Jenn hesitated, guilty she'd indulged herself to visit a place she shouldn't instead of protecting the world she was sworn to preserve.
He'd never been guilty in his role as an assassin or as Death, until sitting with her on the beach.
And he felt guilty as hell for his own foul mood and the insignificant reasons behind it.
You're making me feel guilty.
Fred sulked while Dean felt guilty for treating the old man's efforts so cavalierly but was too pissed in general to jump up and apologize.
There's something else that makes me feel guilty.
And she still found it hard to believe he was guilty.
He looked at once panicked and guilty.
And I will knock the nonsense out of anybody"-- but probably realizing that he was shouting at Bezukhov who so far was not guilty of anything, he added, taking Pierre's hand in a friendly manner, "We are on the eve of a public disaster and I haven't time to be polite to everybody who has business with me.
At last, in 1795, the House of Lords gave a verdict of not guilty on all charges laid against him; and he left the bar at which he had so frequently appeared, with his reputation clear, but ruined in fortune.
And, regardless of his motives, he was still guilty of attempted homicide.
No sooner had she given houseroom to these thoughts than she felt guilty for them.
Glenys Kinnock today blasted the ' blatant hypocrisy ' of the EU in its engagement with regimes guilty of human rights abuses.
Thursday 2 July 1970 Neil Blaney was found not guilty of illegal arms importation by a Dublin jury.
I should be guilty of the grossest ingratitude if I did not give Miss Morris a special mention.
None can, without being guilty of manifest injustice, cast any reproach upon it, or upon our design in publishing it.
They would have been sacrificial lambs and found not guilty anyway, allowing the real culprits to claim vindication for the Yard's actions.
In pursuance of the king's wishes Clement summoned the council of Vienne (see Vienne, Council Of), which was !unable to conclude that the Templars were guilty of heresy.
The majority of the council, in their executive capacity, resolved that the governorgeneral had been guilty of peculation, and ordered him to refund.
She felt more guilty about thinking badly about Evelyn.
Among the curious customs of Halifax was the Gibbet Law, which was probably established by a prescriptive right to protect the wool trade, and gave the inhabitants the power of executing any one taken within their liberty, who, when tried by a jury of sixteen of the frith-burgesses, was found guilty of the theft of any goods of the value of more than 13d.