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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
guilty
    adj 1: responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act;
           "guilty of murder"; "the guilty person"; "secret guilty
           deeds" [ant: clean-handed, guiltless, innocent]
    2: showing a sense of guilt; "a guilty look"; "the hangdog and
       shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric Linklater [syn:
       guilty, hangdog, shamefaced, shamed]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Guilty \Guilt"y\, a. [Compar. Gultier; superl. Guiltiest.]
   [AS. gyltig liable. See Guilt.]
   1. 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; as, guilty of murder.
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            They answered and said, He is guilty of death.
                                                  --Matt. xxvi.
                                                  66.
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            Nor he, nor you, were guilty of the strife.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   2. Evincing or indicating guilt; involving guilt; as, a
      guilty look; a guilty act; a guilty feeling.
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   3. Conscious; cognizant. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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   4. Condemned to payment. [Obs. & R.] --Dryden.
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Thesaurus Results for Guilty:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
accountable, amiss, answerable, apologetic, arraignable, ashamed, at fault, blamable, blameful, blameworthy, censurable, conscience-stricken, contrite, criminal, culpable, delinquent, embarrassed, faulty, impeachable, impeached, implicated, incriminated, inculpated, indictable, indicted, involved, offending, peccant, penitent, red-faced, regretful, remorseful, repentant, reprehensible, reproachable, reprovable, responsible, rueful, sheepish, sinful, sorrowful, sorry, to blame, unholy, wrong
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