• (America) IPA: /ˈɡɪl.ti/, [ˈɡɪl.ti]

guilty (comparative guiltier, superlative guiltiest)

1. Responsible for a dishonest act.

   He was guilty of cheating at cards.

2. (legal) Judged to have committed a crime.

   The guilty man was led away.

3. Having a sense of guilt.

   Do you have a guilty conscience?

4. Blameworthy.

   I have a guilty secret.

   • 1892, Walter Besant, chapter II, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619 ↗:

     At twilight in the summer […] the mice come out. They […] eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly—the only lavishment of which he was ever guilty—on the floor.

• culpable
• shildy (dialectal)

• not guilty
• innocent

• guilty as sin

• French: coupable
• German: schuldig
• Italian: colpevole
• Portuguese: culpado
• Russian: вино́вный
• Spanish: culpable

• French: coupable
• German: schuldig, (Switzerland) fehlbar
• Italian: colpevole
• Portuguese: culpado
• Russian: вино́вный
• Spanish: culpable

• German: schuldbewusst
• Portuguese: culpado
• Russian: винова́тый

• German: schuldig, tadelnswert, tadelnswürdig

guilty (plural guilties)

1. (legal) A plea by a defendant who does not contest a charge.
2. (legal) A verdict of a judge or jury on a defendant judged to have committed a crime.
3. One who is declared guilty of a crime.