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Adjective: guilty (guiltier,guiltiest)  gil-tee
  1. Responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act
    "secret guilty deeds"; "guilty of murder"; "the guilty person"
     
  2. Showing a sense of guilt
    "a guilty look";
    - hangdog, shamefaced, shamed

Derived forms: guiltier, guiltiest

See also: ashamed, at fault, blamable, blameable, blameful, blameworthy, bloodguilty, censurable, chargeable, conscience-smitten, criminal, culpable, delinquent, finable, fineable, guilt-ridden, inculpative [archaic], inculpatory [archaic], indictable, punishable, red-handed, unrighteous

Antonym: clean-handed

Encyclopedia: Guilty