guiltiness

Example Sentences

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He was terrified of getting into trouble, and guiltiness prevailed.

From New York Times • May 16, 2023

Guilt entails feeling bad for having harmed another; guiltiness is the preoccupation with yourself — whether you are or aren’t guilty.

From New York Times • May 16, 2023

The penalty has to be adapted to the guiltiness.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 18, 2019

His modern-day Comforters�a Communist shouting that the individual does not matter, a psychiatrist pontificating that guilt should impose no guiltiness, an old-school clergyman calling glibly for repentance�bring not light but added darkness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then Gabriel prayed to be delivered from blood guiltiness.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin