Definition of Guilty

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. Related Definitions: Act, And, As, By, Censurable, Chargeable, Cognizant, Condemned, Conscious, Crime, Criminal, Delinquent, Evincing, Exposed, Feeling, Followed, For, Guilt, Guilty, Having, Incurred, Indicating, Involving, Justly, Look, Morally, Of, Or, Payment, Penalty, Punishment, Responsible, Something, Sometimes, The, To, Used, Wicked, With

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 Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. William Shakespeare 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 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