guilty
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He certainly had been guilty of hubris, concluded Jackson, the historian.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
This March, three Late Stage executives pleaded guilty to charges of defrauding investors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
She pleaded guilty on Monday to breaking the 20mph speed limit near her home in Kingston-upon-Thames five times between November 2025 and April this year.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Jones has strongly denied the charges, saying he was "certainly not guilty".
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
They were unaware that the Garretts, already guilty of inhospitality, were conspiring to commit a worse offense: treachery.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
This would make any nurse look guiltier with each job change.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 18, 2023
She wrote that his “fictionalized version of me is just the tabloid conspiracy guiltier version of me.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2021
They feel guilty for watching, but guiltier for not watching.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 28, 2019
A guiltier story — one shamed by bodies and temptation — might say that what Fleabag is wrestling with is a built-in moral pain, a form of original sin.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2019
Chris was smiling at him in pure sweetness, which made Theo feel even guiltier about his resentment.
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
So he'll continue to act like the guiltiest man alive.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2024
That’s a shame, because the airline’s 11 outside directors are arguably the guiltiest of the guilty parties in the company’s recent fiasco, the most deserving of obloquy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2023
Both Courtney and Alex would be fully within their rights to plead temporary insanity—the guiltiest party here is the wedding-industrial complex.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2018
It’s a very human impulse to always be angriest about the things you’re guiltiest of doing to other people.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 11, 2018
Josie couldn’t even tell which specific scene he was talking about, or which awful thing one of them had done to the other she felt maddest or guiltiest about.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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