guilty

ен+нг=енг

From Средњи Енглески gilty, gulty, from Стари Енглески gyltiġ (“offending, guilty”); equivalent to guilt +‎ -y.

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• (US) МФА^(кључ): /ˈɡɪl.ti/
• Риме: -ɪlti

guilty (comparative guiltier or more guilty, superlative guiltiest or most guilty)

1. Responsible for a dishonest act.

   He was guilty of cheating at cards.

2. (law) Judged to have committed a crime.

   The guilty man was led away.

3. Having a sense of guilt.

   Do you have a guilty conscience?

   • Шаблон:RQ:Churchill Celebrity
   • 2020 децембар 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:

     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. Blameworthy.

   I have a guilty secret.

   • Шаблон:RQ:Thackeray Pendennis
   • Шаблон:RQ:Besant Ivory Gate

     At twilight in the summerv […] the mice come out. Theyv […] veat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly—the only lavishment of which he was ever guilty—on the floor.

• culpable
• shildy (dialectal)

• not guilty
• innocent

• guilty as sin

• unguilty

guilty (plural guilties)

1. (law) A plea by a defendant who does not contest a charge.
2. (law) A verdict of a judge or jury on a defendant judged to have committed a crime.
3. One who is declared guilty of a crime.
   • 1997, David Brinkley, “June 5, 1983”, in Everyone Is Entitled to My Opinion‎^[1], →ISBN, page 32:

     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.