having committed an offense, crime, violation, or wrong, especially against moral or penal law; justly subject to a certain accusation or penalty; culpable: The jury found her guilty of murder.
characterized by, connected with, or involving guilt: guilty intent.
having or showing a sense of guilt, whether real or imagined: a guilty conscience.
Origin of guilty
before 1000; Middle English; Old English gyltig.See guilt, -y1
He researched the charge in depth, challenged his ticket in court and was found not guilty.
Those Ticketed for Seditious Language Say Their Only Crime Was Talking Back|Kate Nucci|September 9, 2020|Voice of San Diego
In March 2008, Chi Mak is found guilty and sentenced to 24 years in prison for conspiring to export military technology to China, among other crimes.
A brief history of US-China espionage entanglements|Konstantin Kakaes|September 3, 2020|MIT Technology Review
All four, who face up to 20 years in prison on each of the two counts they face, have pleaded not guilty, and Bannon has called the charges a plot to stop border wall construction.
New Engineering Report Finds Privately Built Border Wall Will Fail|by Jeremy Schwartz and Perla Trevizo|September 2, 2020|ProPublica
“People are more likely to feel guilty taking time off right now,” Bandurian said.
How managers can recognize burnout remotely|Kristine Gill|August 28, 2020|Fortune
In less than half those cases, 22, people were found guilty of voting in two states.
As states mull expanding vote by mail, they’re turning to Oregon for advice|Lee Clifford|August 24, 2020|Fortune
Slowly, slowly, dance classes may cease to be such secret and guilty pleasures in Iran.
Iran’s Becoming a Footloose Nation as Dance Lessons Spread|IranWire|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
What he has said publicly is an apology for colonialism, something we are not guilty of in Cuba.
Obama’s One Hand Clap With Castro|Doug McIntyre|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We are all guilty all the time and retribution will come for our unnamed sins.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If you are found by a committee of students to be guilty of violating the Honor Code, you are expelled.
How UVA Is Failing Its Women|Allison McNearney|November 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
His attorney says he will be pleading not guilty at his arraignment in December.
Rape, Lies & Videotape in Ferguson|Michael Daly|November 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If you mean to insinuate that I am, I consider that you are guilty of impertinence.
Shirley|Charlotte Bront
Sire, I have been guilty of a great fault; nay, more than a great fault, a great crime.
Ten Years Later|Alexandre Dumas, Pere
It was an almost unheard of indiscretion, but youth is often guilty of much folly.
Heathen Master Filcsik|Klmn Mikszth
Emerson is the last man we should expect to be guilty of misinterpreting Nature, yet he does so at times.
The Last Harvest|John Burroughs
He takes a terrible pride in his seamanship, and what hurts him most is the knowledge that he was guilty of the blunder.
The Mutiny of the Elsinore|Jack London
British Dictionary definitions for guilty
guilty
/ (ˈɡɪltɪ) /
adjectiveguiltierorguiltiest
responsible for an offence or misdeed
lawhaving committed an offence or adjudged to have done sothe accused was found guilty
plead guiltylaw(of a person charged with an offence) to admit responsibility; confess
of, showing, or characterized by guilta guilty smile; guilty pleasures