as in ashamed
suffering from or expressive of a feeling of responsibility for wrongdoing
she was burdened with a guilty conscience after ignoring the stranger's request for help
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Recent Examples of guilty
In December 2021, he was found guilty on five of the six counts.
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Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 1 May 2025
Anthony Aguirre, 25, Aguirre pleaded guilty in August to distributing fentanyl to a minor and being a felon in possession of a gun.
—Andrea Klick, Oc Register, 25 Apr. 2025
Guentzel was also guilty of two penalties, both of which were of the unnecessary variety.
—Josh Yohe, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
Campos, who was arrested in the Sacramento area, appeared Tuesday in federal court in Sacramento and entered a plea of not guilty.
—Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 24 Apr. 2025
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Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 1 May 2025
Anthony Aguirre, 25, Aguirre pleaded guilty in August to distributing fentanyl to a minor and being a felon in possession of a gun.
—Andrea Klick, Oc Register, 25 Apr. 2025
Guentzel was also guilty of two penalties, both of which were of the unnecessary variety.
—Josh Yohe, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
Campos, who was arrested in the Sacramento area, appeared Tuesday in federal court in Sacramento and entered a plea of not guilty.
—Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 24 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for guilty
ashamed
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His brave and brilliant mother, who suffered from Alzheimer’s and died in 1962 of a cerebral hemorrhage, would have been shocked and ashamed.—
Richard D. Mahoney,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Apr. 2025
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Vietnam had been a taboo—something to be ashamed of.—
Jennifer Brookland,
Mercury News,
27 Apr. 2025
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“Guilty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guilty. Accessed 18 May. 2025.
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