guiltiness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for guiltiness
Noun
  • What lingers as the end credits roll is Daniel Day-Lewis’ noble face — full of sorrow, resentment, guilt and shame, emotions that Ray spends much of the early action masking in hardened indifference.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The judge commented that the decision was not a ruling on his innocence or guilt, but the technical error in bringing the case.
    Thomas Smith, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The writer became inspired to counteract his complicity in a corrupt system.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Cultural norms around the practice and the complicity of local officials also hinder progress, according to the Centre for Reproductive Rights.
    Carlotta Dotto, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Khan, who led the agency in bringing the lawsuit against Amazon, suggested that the FTC had absolved the company of its full culpability by agreeing to settle.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 26 Sep. 2025
  • 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
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“Guiltiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guiltiness. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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