Guilty

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Responsible for a dishonest act.
  • adjective. Judged to have committed a crime.
  • adjective. Having a sense of guilt
  • adjective. Blameworthy.
  • noun. 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. One who is declared guilty of a crime.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. showing a sense of guilt
  • adjective. responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act
  • Word Usage
    "_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."
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    kilty  quilty  
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    agree  ashamed  aware  bad  been  
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