guiltily

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guilt·y

(gĭl′tē)

adj. guilt·i·er, guilt·i·est

a. Responsible for a reprehensible act; culpable.

b. Law Found to have violated a criminal law by a jury or judge.

c. Deserving blame, as for an error: guilty of misjudgment.

2. Suffering from or prompted by a sense of guilt: a guilty conscience.

3. Suggesting or entailing guilt: a guilty smirk; a guilty secret.

guilt′i·ly adv.

guilt′i·ness n.

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Adv.

guiltily - in the manner of someone who has committed an offense; "she blushed guiltily as she spoke"

Translations

بشعور بالذَّنْب

provinile

schuldbewusst

bûnbánóan

meî sektarsvip

con sentimento di colpa

previnilo

suçlu gibi

内疚地

guiltily

[ˈgɪltɪlɪ] ADV (= feeling guilty) → sintiéndose culpable, con sentimiento de culpabilidad; (= looking guilty) → con aire de culpabilidad

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

guiltily

[ˈgɪltɪli] adv [say] → d'un air coupable

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

guiltily

adv → schuldbewusst

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

guiltily

[ˈgɪltɪlɪ] adv → colpevolmente

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

guilt

(gilt) noun

1. a sense of shame. a feeling of guilt.

2. the state of having done wrong. Fingerprints proved the murderer's guilt.

ˈguilty adjective

having, feeling, or causing guilt. The jury found the prisoner guilty; a guilty conscience.

ˈguiltiness noun

ˈguiltily adverb

He looked at his mother guiltily.

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For a moment his face lost its valor and he looked guiltily about him.

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That is what she did, and furthermore she left the room guiltily, muttering something about redding up the drawers.

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He caught himself imagining the wonder of a caress from such a hand, and flushed guiltily. It was too gross a thought for her.

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But she looked again, guiltily, for the joy that was hers in beholding what she knew must be sinful to behold.

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Rebecca rose guiltily. There seemed no excuse to make.

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By this time, my sister was quite desperate, so she pounced on Joe, and, taking him by the two whiskers, knocked his head for a little while against the wall behind him: while I sat in the corner, looking guiltily on.

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Her perception that Angel's bearing towards her still remained in no whit altered by her own communication rendered Tess guiltily doubtful if he could have received it.

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He started out upon these walks half guiltily, with a curious longing and expectancy which were wholly gratified by solitude.

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Her two sisters, standing by, looked at each other guiltily: "What will the Committee say to us?

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His yellow face turned to a more deadly colour when he saw the Captain, and he slunk back guiltily into the inmost parlour.

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The listener started, guiltily, too; for she thought there was another listener among the trees.

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A new notion came into his mind and he turned and looked guiltily about as though afraid he would be observed.