guilty
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Etymology
From Srednji Engleski gilty, gulty, from Stari Engleski gyltiġ (“offending, guilty”); equivalent to guilt + -y.
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guilty (comparative guiltier or more guilty, superlative guiltiest or most guilty)
- Responsible for a dishonest act.
- He was guilty of cheating at cards.
- (law) Judged to have committed a crime.
- The guilty man was led away.
- Having a sense of guilt.
- Do you have a guilty conscience?
- Šablon:RQ:Churchill Celebrity
- 2020 decembar 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
- The numbers thin out the further we get from London, so I don't feel guilty when I remove my mask momentarily to scoff some of the snacks I'd bought at Marylebone.
- Blameworthy.
- I have a guilty secret.
- Šablon:RQ:Thackeray Pendennis
- Šablon:RQ:Besant Ivory Gate
- At twilight in the summerv […] the mice come out. Theyv […] veat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly—the only lavishment of which he was ever guilty—on the floor.
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responsible for a dishonest act
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judged to have committed a crime
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having a sense of guilt
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blameworthy
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Noun
guilty (plural guilties)
- (law) A plea by a defendant who does not contest a charge.
- (law) A verdict of a judge or jury on a defendant judged to have committed a crime.
- One who is declared guilty of a crime.
- 1997, David Brinkley, “June 5, 1983”, in Everyone Is Entitled to My Opinion[1], →ISBN, page 32:
- The not guilties walked out and went to work if they had jobs; the guilties were hauled away to spend maybe thirty days on the county farm growing cabbage.