Definition of Guilty

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Guilty

Having incurred guilt; criminal; morally delinquent; wicked; chargeable with, or responsible for, something censurable; justly exposed to penalty; -- used with of, and usually followed by the crime, sometimes by the punishment.

Evincing or indicating guilt; involving guilt; as, a guilty look; a guilty act; a guilty feeling.

Conscious; cognizant.

Condemned to payment.

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Guilty Quotations

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas Jefferson

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald Reagan

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
C. S. Lewis

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not guilty."
Theodore Roosevelt

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
William Shakespeare

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Hunter S. Thompson

I think when a person has been found guilty of rape he should be castrated. That would stop him pretty quick.
Billy Graham

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
Voltaire

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
Voltaire

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
Saint Augustine

Guilty Translations

guilty in Afrikaans is skuldig
guilty in Danish is skyldig
guilty in Dutch is schuldig
guilty in Finnish is syyllinen
guilty in French is coupable, fautif
guilty in Italian is conscio della propria colpa, colpevole
guilty in Norwegian is skyldig
guilty in Portuguese is culpado
guilty in Spanish is culpable
guilty in Swedish is skyldig

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