See Also: guilty(dictionary)
guilty(dictionary)
GUILTY(law)
Guilty But Mentally Ill (GBMI)(law)
Not Guilty By Reason Of Insanity (NGRI)(law)

guilty (iou)



guilty adjective & noun.

A. adjective.
That has incurred guilt; deserving punishment; criminal, culpable. Formerly also, that has offended or been at fault. OE.
Woodes Rogers We put ten of the Mutineers in Irons...Others less guilty I punish'd and discharg'd. transf.: Byron He hangs his guilty head.
That has committed a particular offence or crime, or is justly chargeable with a particular fault. (Foll. by of.) ME.
H. James I indignantly protest that I am never guilty of that clumsiness. Sunday Express An Old Bailey jury found Patrick Reilly..not guilty.
Foll. by of: culpably responsible for, to blame for. ME-E18.
Deserving of, liable to, (a penalty). LME-M17.
Of an action or condition: involving guilt, culpable, criminal. L16.
Conscious of or prompted by guilt. L16.
guilty CONSCIENCE.
P. H. Gibbs 'I feel a little guilty in eating cream buns,' said Maria Theresa.
Conscious, cognizant, (of, to). L16-L17.
b. absol. as noun.
Guilty people as a class. Now only with the. LME.
A guilty person. Usu. with the. M16-E18.
guiltily adverb L16.
guiltiness noun the condition, quality, or state of being or feeling guilty; an instance of this: LME.