Definitions for guilty

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guilty guilt·y

Spelling: [gil-tee]

IPA: /ˈgɪl ti/

Guilty is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in guilty (giltuy).

Definitions for guilty

adjective

1. having committed an offense, crime, violation, or wrong, especially against moral or penal law; justly subject to a certain accusation or penalty; culpable:
2. characterized by, connected with, or involving guilt:
3. having or showing a sense of guilt, whether real or imagined:

Origin of guilty

before 1000; Middle English; Old English gyltig. See guilt, -y¹

Examples for guilty

We are all guilty all the time and retribution will come for our unnamed sins.

I must make it clear to myself that He does not shut me out of His heart because I am guilty of sins.

The easy thing to do was to find me guilty, and let it go at that.

But the discovery and punishment of the other guilty ones will.

His attorney says he will be pleading not guilty at his arraignment in December.

If you are found by a committee of students to be guilty of violating the Honor Code, you are expelled.

Slowly, slowly, dance classes may cease to be such secret and guilty pleasures in Iran.

If he had been guilty, what was that to the cruel world so ready to punish, so ready to do worse!

What he has said publicly is an apology for colonialism, something we are not guilty of in Cuba.

They left it on her breast, in the coffin, and it went with that guilty woman to the tomb.