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Guiltiest

Guilty \Guilt"y\, a. [Compar. Gultier; superl. Guiltiest.]

  1. 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; as, guilty of murder.

    They answered and said, He is guilty of death.
    --Matt. xxvi. 66.

    Nor he, nor you, were guilty of the strife.
    --Dryden.

  2. Evincing or indicating guilt; involving guilt; as, a guilty look; a guilty act; a guilty feeling.

  3. Conscious; cognizant. [Obs.]
    --B. Jonson.

  4. Condemned to payment. [Obs. & R.]
    --Dryden.

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guiltiest

a. (en-superlativeguilty)

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guiltiest

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guilty

  1. adj. responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act; or marked by guilt; "guilty of murder"; "the guilty person"; "secret guilty deeds"; "a guilty conscience"; "guilty behavior" [ant: innocent]

  2. showing a sense of guilt; "a guilty look"; "the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric Linklater [syn: hangdog, shamefaced, shamed]

  3. [also: guiltiest, guiltier]

Usage examples of "guiltiest".

But the damned and the guiltiest among you are the men who had the capacity to know, yet chose to blank out reality, the men who were willing to sell their intelligence into cynical servitude to force: the contemptible breed of those mystics of science who profess a devotion to some sort of 'pure knowledge’—the purity consisting of their claim that such knowledge has no practical purpose on this earth—who reserve their logic for inanimate matter, but believe that the subject of dealing with men requires and deserves no rationality, who scorn money and sell their souls in exchange for a laboratory supplied by loot.

How desperately he had sought for another, turning his back upon that grim thought, that Marloweobsessed by passion like himself, and privy perhaps to maddening truths about the wife's unhappinesshad taken a leaf, the guiltiest, from the book of Bothwell.

Henry thought to himself: the Devil certainly knows where to find a man's weakest and guiltiest thoughts.