Guilty
Guilty adjective - Suffering from or expressive of a feeling of responsibility for wrongdoing.
Offending and guilty are semantically related. in blameworthy topic. In some cases you can use "Offending" instead an adjective "Guilty", when it comes to topics like censurable, culpable.
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- responsible and guilty
- responsible and offending
- sinful and guilty
- sinful and offending
- criminal and guilty
- criminal and offending
- iniquitous and guilty
- iniquitous and offending
- delinquent and guilty
- delinquent and offending
- reprehensible and guilty
- reprehensible and offending
- felonious and guilty
- felonious and offending
Both words in one sentence
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Guitar Hero: Smash Hits would be guilty of using quotation marks for emphasis, if they had actually used quotation marks rather than the offending apostrophes.
- Gyp Rosetti in Boardwalk Empire is guilty of serial Disproportionate Retribution, generally resulting in the death of the offending party, no matter how minimal their slight.
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Offending and Guilty. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/guilty/offending
Guilty & Offending. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/guilty/offending>.
Offending or Guilty. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/guilty/offending.
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