GUILTY in a Sentence
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181 example sentences for GUILTY, such as:
1. Let's assume A knows B is guilty.
2. A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
3. A guilty conscience never feels secure.
4. The company were guilty of gross negligence.
5. This was very disagreeable to a guilty mind.
2. A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
3. A guilty conscience never feels secure.
4. The company were guilty of gross negligence.
5. This was very disagreeable to a guilty mind.
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Meanings and Examples of GUILTY
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guilty
a. showing a sense of guilt
a. responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act
Classic Sentence: (132 in 9 pages)
1 If she is, God forbid that she should suffer as guilty.
2 My cousin," replied I, "it is decided as you may have expected; all judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.
3 Everybody believed that poor girl to be guilty; and if she could have committed the crime for which she suffered, assuredly she would have been the most depraved of human creatures.
4 The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.
5 At one time I considered whether I should not declare myself guilty and suffer the penalty of the law, less innocent than poor Justine had been.
6 Wilson was so sick that he looked guilty, unforgivably guilty--as if he had just got some poor girl with child.
7 This purpose once effected, new interests would immediately spring up, and likewise a new purpose; dark, it is true, if not guilty, but of force enough to engage the full strength of his faculties.
8 The heart, making itself guilty of such secrets, must perforce hold them, until the day when all hidden things shall be revealed.
9 He had striven to put a cheat upon himself by making the avowal of a guilty conscience, but had gained only one other sin, and a self-acknowledged shame, without the momentary relief of being self-deceived.
10 The venerable Father Wilson continued to step slowly onward, looking carefully at the muddy pathway before his feet, and never once turning his head towards the guilty platform.
11 I should hold myself guilty of greater impropriety in accepting a horse from my brother, than from Willoughby.
12 She left to my care her only child, a little girl, the offspring of her first guilty connection, who was then about three years old.
13 Vanity, while seeking its own guilty triumph at the expense of another, had involved him in a real attachment, which extravagance, or at least its offspring, necessity, had required to be sacrificed.
14 This was very disagreeable to a guilty mind.
15 It was impossible to try him for that, and do otherwise than find him guilty.
Example Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1 A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
2 A guilty conscience never feels secure.
3 She's got a terribly guilty conscience about it.
4 I feel really guilty at forgetting her birthday again.
5 We must assume him to be innocent until he is proved guilty.
6 Let's assume A knows B is guilty.
7 But the reverse is true when an attorney represents a person who is obviously guilty or whose guilt is widely perceived.
8 She pleaded guilty to carrying an offensive weapon.
9 The plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence for failing to wear a crash helmet.
10 He pleaded not guilty to murdering his former wife.
11 The prosecution has to prove beyond reasonable doubt that he is guilty of murder.
12 If he is found guilty, he will almost certainly hang.
13 The company were guilty of gross negligence.
14 She was found guilty of unprofessional conduct.
15 In this country, you are innocent until proved guilty.