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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

... until everything can be proven; but meanwhile all must remain out of the works that the guilty parties may not be able to do ...

— Down the Slope • James Otis

... hand above her head. We walked on tiptoe, like criminals at the dead of night, and stopped before that old oak cabinet which my father had indicated in so odd a way to me. I felt that we were about some contraband practice. There was a key in the door, which I experienced a guilty horror at turning, she whispering in the same unintelligible way, all the time, at my ear. I did turn it; the door opened quite softly, and within stood my father, his face white and malignant, and glaring close ...

— Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bartram-Haugh • J.S. Le Fanu

... sometimes too dry; many times unequal, and almost always forced; and, besides, is full of conceits, points of epigram, and witticisms; all which are not only below the dignity of heroic verse, but contrary to its nature: Virgil and Homer have not one of them. And those who are guilty of so boyish an ambition in so grave a subject are so far from being considered as heroic poets that they ought to be turned down from Homer to the "Anthologia," from Virgil to Martial and Owen's Epigrams, and from Spenser to Flecknoe—that is, from the top to the bottom of all poetry. ...

— Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry • John Dryden

... evil without having sufficiently examined it, is the effect of pride and laziness. We wish to find the guilty, and we do not wish to trouble ...

— Reflections - Or, Sentences and Moral Maxims • Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld

... Exercitus designs To match the famed Salsipotent Where on her sceptre she reclines; Awake: but were a slumber sent By guilty gods, more fell his ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

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