Awful and Guilty

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Awful

Awful adjective - Causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment.

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Guilty and awful are semantically related in feeling topic. In some cases you can use "Guilty" instead an adjective "Awful", when it comes to topics like remorseful.

Nearby Word: awfully

Guilty

Guilty adjective - Suffering from or expressive of a feeling of responsibility for wrongdoing.

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Awful and guilty are semantically related in feeling topic. Sometimes you can use "Awful" instead an adjective "Guilty".

Nearby Words: guilt, guiltless, guiltiness, guiltily

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Guilty Pleasures: It's one of those So Bad, It's Good or absolutely awful movies.

Source: Film / Once Bitten
However he still counts as before this, the only thing he's really guilty of is inaction and yet the characters still talk about him like he's awful; long before that revelation.

Source: Designated Villain
Sol Badguy from the Guilty Gear series is often boorish, slovenly, aloof, ill-mannered, far more intelligent and well-informed than his appearance would indicate, and is the perpetrator of one of the most awful crimes in that world: being the co-creator of the Gears.

Source: Byronic Hero

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