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单词 guilt
释义

guilt

/ɡɪlt /
noun [mass noun]
1The fact of having committed a specified or implied offence or crime: it is the duty of the prosecution to prove the prisoner’s guilt...
  • The orders concerned were divorced from any finding of guilt for an offence.
  • It has been stressed the setting up of the advice line does not imply any guilt.
  • A reasonable man would not infer guilt from the fact of a police inquiry.

Synonyms

culpability, guiltiness, blameworthiness, wrongdoing, wrong, wrongfulness, criminality, unlawfulness, misconduct, delinquency, sin, sinfulness, iniquity;
responsibility, accountability, liability, answerability
1.1A feeling of having committed wrong or failed in an obligation: he remembered with sudden guilt the letter from his mother that he had not yet read...
  • It speaks to man's most damaging emotions, such as anger, guilt, fear, doubt and anxiety.
  • In the simplest, we have robots or androids who can think but who cannot feel joy, grief, guilt or jealousy.
  • It reflects a depressing net of guilt, shame, despair and hopelessness.

Synonyms

self-reproach, self-accusation, self-condemnation, feelings of guilt, guiltiness, a guilty conscience, a bad conscience, pangs of conscience;
remorse, remorsefulness, regret, contrition, contriteness, repentance, penitence, compunction;
shame, disgrace, dishonour
archaic rue
verb [with object] informal
short for guilt-trip. Celeste had been guilted into going by her parents...
  • Is this the diet industry's way of guilting us into weightloss?
  • Shouldn't we still be trying to educate our youth about drugs rather than guilting them into not using?
  • On the other front VP messaged me and was guilting me into a date again so I agreed.

Phrases

guilt by association

Origin

Old English gylt, of unknown origin.

Rhymes

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