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Guilty

adjective

(compar. gultier; superl. guiltiest)

Responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act. "The guilty person" , "Secret guilty deeds"

Showing a sense of guilt. Synonyms: hangdog, shamed, shamefaced. "The hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"

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"Guilty" Quotes from Famous Books

... "You were doing the one thing which a guilty man would do. People would have known before long that you were there, obviously hiding. I think that Count Sabatini will propose ...

— The Lighted Way • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... conscience—something more than the Puritan conscience, but something which is permeated by it. In this relation he is wont to use what Hazlitt calls the "moral power of imagination." Hawthorne would try to spiritualize a guilty conscience. He would sing of the relentlessness of guilt, the inheritance of guilt, the shadow of guilt darkening innocent posterity. All of its sins and morbid horrors, its specters, its phantasmas, and even its hellish hopelessness ...

— Essays Before a Sonata • Charles Ives

... and not returning it in kind. There was nothing of a "we-forgive-you" in the bearing of his Northern acquaintances, nor was there any effusiveness in cordiality with an evident design of reassuring him. He was made to feel that he was guilty of an anachronism in brooding over the war, that it had been forgotten except as history, and that the present with its opportunities, and the future with its promise, were the themes of thought. The elements of life, energy, ...

— The Earth Trembled • E.P. Roe

... much more good-natured man than he ought to have been according to his principles—he accepted the hospitality; but he did so with a sly look from over his spectacles, which brought a blush into the guilty cheeks of the parson. Certainly Riccabocca had for once guessed right in ...

— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... enacted that "all persons pretending to any power of absolving subjects from their allegiance, or practising to withdraw them to the Romish religion, with all persons after the present session willingly so absolved or reconciled to the See of Rome, shall be guilty of High Treason." The way in which the vast powers conferred on the Crown by this statute were used by Elizabeth was not only characteristic in itself, but important as at once defining the policy to which, in theory at least, her successors adhered for more than a hundred years. ...

— History of the English People - Volume 4 (of 8) • John Richard Green

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