guilty

adjective

Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪl.ti/

Etymology: From Middle English gilty, gulty, from Old English gyltiġ (“offending, guilty”); equivalent to guilt + -y.

Responsible for a dishonest act.
“He was guilty of cheating at cards.”
“I still feel guilty about having forgotten his bday.”
Judged to have committed a crime.
“The guilty man was led away.”
Having a sense of guilt.
“Do you have a guilty conscience?”
“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.
“I have a guilty secret.”
“Don’t you see that we have been playing a guilty game, and have been overreached […]”

Etymology: From Middle English gilty, gulty, from Old English gyltiġ (“offending, guilty”); equivalent to guilt + -y.

A plea by a defendant who does not contest a charge.
A verdict of a judge or jury on a defendant judged to have committed a crime.
One who is declared guilty of a crime.
“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.”