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guilty

adj
/ˈɡɪl.ti/

Etymology

From Middle English gilty, gulty, from Old English gyltiġ (“offending, guilty”); equivalent to guilt + -y.

  1. inherited from gyltiġ — “offending, guilty”
  2. inherited from gilty

Definitions

  1. Responsible for a dishonest act.

    • He was guilty of cheating at cards.

  2. Judged to have committed a crime.

    • The guilty man was led away.

  3. Having a sense of guilt.

    • Do you have a guilty conscience?
    • The numbers thin out the further we get from London, so I don't feel guilty when I remove my mask momentarily to scoff some of the snacks I'd bought at Marylebone.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Blameworthy.

      • I have a guilty secret.
      • Don’t you see that we have been playing a guilty game, and have been overreached […]

    2. A plea by a defendant who does not contest a charge.

    3. A verdict of a judge or jury on a defendant judged to have committed a crime.

    4. One who is declared guilty of a crime.

      • The not guilties walked out and went to work if they had jobs; the guilties were hauled away to spend maybe thirty days on the county farm growing cabbage.

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Derived

beguilty, bloodguilty, guiltily, guiltiness, guilty as a cat in a goldfish bowl, guilty as charged, guilty as sin, guilty conscience, guiltylike, guilty pleasure, inguilty, nonguilty, unguilty

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at guilty. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at guilty. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at guilty

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA