Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
guilt-ridden \guilt-ridden\ adj. mentally anguished due to feelings of guilt[3].
Syn: guilt-sick.
Wiktionary
a. Having a strong sense of guilt.
WordNet
adj. feeling or revealing a sense of guilt; "so guilt-ridden he could not face his father"
Usage examples of "guilt-ridden".
Behind the Calamarian ambassador came a guilt-ridden Streen beside muscular and supple Kirana Ti.
The poor man, she thought, imagining his solitary bouts of guilt-ridden self-abuse in a dark rectory bedroom.
Long before the embers had glowed down, a guilt-ridden Hermes had confessed his accident to Sabinus.
The mere word was anathema to him, and he stormed back and forth in excoriating condemnation, shaking a piercing finger of rebuke in the guilt-ridden faces of Colonel Cathcart, Colonel Korn and the poor battle-scarred captain with the submachine gun who commanded the M.
I was too guilt-ridden to approach her, guilt that I let turn into self-righteous anger, for her prying into commission business….
We have been careful in this guilt-ridden age of dogged reparation to invent a multitude of virtual realities which serve and pander to that darker side of our nature, but we have no guarantee that it can be safely and permanently confined in that way.