| a. | 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; |
| 2. | Evincing or indicating guilt; involving guilt; | |
| 3. | Conscious; cognizant. | |
| 4. | Condemned to payment. |
| Adj. | 1. | guilty - 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" Antonyms: clean-handed, guiltless, innocent - free from evil or guilt; "an innocent child"; "the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty" |
| 2. | guilty - showing a sense of guilt; "a guilty look"; "the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric Linklater |
GUILTY. The state or condition of a person who has committed a crime,
misdemeanor or offence.
2. This word implies a malicious intent, and must be applied to
something universally allowed to be a crime. Cowp. 275.
3. In pleading, it is a plea by which a defendant who is charged with a
crime, misdemeanor or tort, admits or confesses it. In criminal proceedings,
when the accused is arraigned, the clerk asks him,: How say you, A B, are
you guilty or not guilty?" His answer, which is given ore tenus, is called
his plea; and when he admits the charge in the indictment he answers or
pleads guilty.