(guiltier, guiltiest)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you feel ~, you feel unhappy because you think that you have done something wrong or have failed to do something which you should have done.
I feel so ~, leaving all this to you...
When she saw me she looked ~.
ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, oft ADJ about n
guiltily
He glanced guiltily over his shoulder.
ADV: ADV with v
2.
Guilty is used of an action or fact that you feel ~ about.
Many may be keeping it a ~ secret...
I leave with a ~ sense of relief.
~ conscience: see conscience
ADJ: ADJ n
3.
If someone is ~ of a crime or offence, they have committed that crime or offence.
They were found ~ of murder...
He pleaded ~ to causing actual bodily harm.
ADJ: oft ADJ of n/-ing
4.
If someone is ~ of doing something wrong, they have done that thing.
He claimed Mr Brooke had been ~ of a ‘gross error of judgment’...
They will consider whether or not he has been ~ of serious professional misconduct.
ADJ: oft ADJ of n/-ing