guilt

Roget category 947

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.4. Moral affections
›› 6.4.3. Moral conditions

#947. Guilt

noun

guilt, guiltiness — culpability — criminality, criminousness^† — deviation from rectitude etc. (improbity) 940^† — sinfulness etc. (vice) 945.
misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed — malpractice, fault, sin, error, transgression — dereliction, delinquency — indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux pas [Fr.], peccadillo — flaw, blot, omission — failing, failure — break, bad break! [U.S.], capital crime, delictum [Lat.].
offense, trespass — misdemeanor, misfeasance, misprision — malefaction, malfeasance, malversation — crime, felony.
enormity, atrocity, outrage — deadly sin, mortal sin — deed without a name" [Macbeth]. corpus delicti.

adjective

guilty, to blame, culpable, peccable^†, in fault, at fault, censurable, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, illaudable^† — weighed in the balance and found wanting — exceptionable.

adverb

in flagrante delicto [Lat.] — red-handed, in the very act, with one's hand in the cookie jar.

phrase

cui prodest scelus in fecit [Lat.] [Seneca]; culpam paena premit comes [Lat.] [Horace]; O would the deed were good! " [Richard II]; responsibility prevents crimes" [Burke]; se judice nemo nocens absolvitur [Lat.] [Juvenal]; so many laws argues so many sins" [Paradise Lost].

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