Guilty
Guilty adjective - Suffering from or expressive of a feeling of responsibility for wrongdoing.
Questionable and guilty are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Questionable" instead an adjective "Guilty".
Questionable
Questionable adjective - Giving good reason for being doubted, questioned, or challenged.
Guilty and questionable are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Guilty" instead an adjective "Questionable".
Both words in one sentence
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He has a jury of his peers, but as they're all underlings who'll be promoted if Control is killed, their motives are questionable when they find him guilty.
Source: Kangaroo Court - However, unlike a villain with a Freudian Excuse, the Troubled Abuser isn't just guilty of any morally questionable act, they are guilty of committing one or more of these acts against someone with whom they have or end up developing an interpersonal relationship.
Source: Troubled Abuser - Then there's Howard Roark, the hero, who engages in sex that has Questionable Consent and domestic terrorism, yet it's treated as a good thing when despite spending eight pages in a Motive Rant about how and why he did the latter, he's found not guilty anyway.
Source: Protagonist-Centered Morality
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