Guilty vs X - What's the difference?
guilty | x |
Responsible for a dishonest act.
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(lb) Judged to have committed a crime.
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Having a sense of guilt.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.}}
Blameworthy.
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*:At twilight in the summereat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly—the only lavishment of which he was ever guilty —on the floor.
(legal) A plea by a defendant who does not contest a charge.
(legal) A verdict of a judge or jury on a defendant judged to have committed a crime.
One who is declared guilty of a crime.
* {{quote-book, 1997, , Everyone Is Entitled to My Opinion
, passage=The not guilties walked out and went to work if they had jobs; the guilties were hauled away to spend maybe thirty days on the county farm growing cabbage.}}
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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As an adjective guilty
is responsible for a dishonest act.As a noun guilty
is (legal) a plea by a defendant who does not contest a charge.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.guilty
English
Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* (l) * (l) (dialectal)Antonyms
* not guilty * innocentNoun
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