guilt

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Recent Examples of guilt Phrases repeat like gestures in a dance; characters turn on a wheel of love, resentment, guilt, longing, and love again. Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025 Colette Watson continued to fly for Eastern afterward but was haunted by survivor’s guilt, her daughter said. Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025 Silver might be comforted by the fact that even many liberals who had fled for Bluesky seem to be embracing X-ism once more, creeping back onto the platform with a certain furtive guilt. Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025 After any potential hearing, Robinson would issue a decision regarding guilt and the severity of the discipline. Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for guilt
Recent Examples of Synonyms for guilt
Noun
  • Justice Christopher Beale said the substantial planning of the murders and Patterson's lack of remorse meant her sentence should be lengthy.
    Alasdair Pal, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Suarez issued an apology last Thursday, expressing deep remorse.
    Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Jimmy Kimmel addressed the shooting death of Charlie Kirk on his ABC late night show on Thursday, this time calling out Donald Trump‘s casting of blame on the rhetoric of the left.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The Kremlin, meanwhile, has also cast blame on Europe for creating obstacles to peace.
    Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Israel-Premier Tech expressed its regret following the event, which resulted in the cancellation of the race’s finale and traditional podium ceremony.
    Pau Mosquera, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
  • One taught me about living and dying; the other taught me about envy and regret.
    Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But unlike the billions of other web-using inhabitants of planet Earth, the 72-year-old Canter feels an ever-so-slight twinge of culpability for all that digital junk that rockets across the internet each day.
    Johnny Dodd, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Naming an interstate war based on the state in which the war is fought – while omitting the name of outside instigators – implies the culpability of that state.
    Esther Brito Ruiz, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But people can get very emotional about money, experiencing feelings from scarcity and fear to greed, anxiety, shame, and guilt.
    Gabriel Shahin, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The shame falls on the person who betrayed me.
    Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Guilt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guilt. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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