GUILT

n. 1 culpability, guiltiness, criminality, blame, responsibility, blameworthiness; crime, sinfulness, feloniousness, wrongdoing, misconduct Confronted by the evidence, Shillingworth admitted his guilt 2 remorse, self-reproach, regret, sorrow, contrition, repentance, shame, contriteness, self-condemnation, bad conscience That feeling of guilt would plague me for the rest of my life