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What (who) is guiltily - definition
guiltily
see guilty
Guiltily
·adv In a guilty manner.
guilty
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(guiltier, guiltiest)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you feel guilty, you feel unhappy because you think that you have done something wrong or have failed to do something which you should have done.
I feel so guilty, leaving all this to you...
When she saw me she looked guilty.
ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, oft ADJ about n
• guiltily
He glanced guiltily over his shoulder.
ADV: ADV with v
2.
Guilty is used of an action or fact that you feel guilty about.
Many may be keeping it a guilty secret...
I leave with a guilty sense of relief.
guilty conscience: see conscience
ADJ: ADJ n
3.
If someone is guilty of a crime or offence, they have committed that crime or offence.
They were found guilty of murder...
He pleaded guilty to causing actual bodily harm.
ADJ: oft ADJ of n/-ing
4.
If someone is guilty of doing something wrong, they have done that thing.
He claimed Mr Brooke had been guilty of a 'gross error of judgment'...
They will consider whether or not he has been guilty of serious professional misconduct.
ADJ: oft ADJ of n/-ing
Examples of use of guiltily
1. Let me say it embarressedly, cornily, almost guiltily.
2. Then I‘ll put on some Louis Vuitton and leave." Then, a little guiltily, he admits that he doesn‘t enjoy church.
3. Once it came, some, privately and guiltily, whispered that they were relieved: they had dreaded something much bigger.
4. He writes guiltily about allowing his political career to crowd out his obligations as partner and parent.
5. "Daaaaad," she snaps, and he guiltily closes the fridge and slinks off to bed chastened, his stomach grumbling in vain.