guilty
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Aggarwal, of Dickens Rise in Chigwell, Essex, pleaded not guilty to sending a public communication that was offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing and will stand trial in March.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Both men were hired before Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida and stayed on with him until the very end.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Sung, 54, who pleaded guilty to two felony counts of solicitation of bribery, is the highest-ranking sheriff’s official ever convicted by the Santa Clara County district attorney’s office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Nevertheless, Thursday’s news that a jury in Norristown, Pennsylvania, found Cosby guilty on three counts of aggravated indecent assault against Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee, came as a shock.
From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2018
I think Dad felt kind of guilty, because he gave my shoulders a hug when we went into the library, and said, “Buck up, Soph. There’ll be other chickens eventually.”
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
A guiltier pleasure is attempting to go above and beyond anything your parents may have done for you.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2024
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
He’s not ready for me like he usually is, which makes me feel even guiltier.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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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