Usually means: Judged based on others' actions.
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  1. guilt by association: Merriam-Webster
  2. guilt by association: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. guilt by association: Vocabulary.com
  4. guilt by association: Dictionary.com
  5. Guilt by Association (disambiguation), Guilt by Association, Guilt-by-association, Guilt by association: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. guilt by association: Rhymezone
  7. guilt by association: FreeDictionary.org
  8. guilt by association: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. guilt by association: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  the attribution of guilt (without proof) to individuals because the people they associate with are guilty

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Nazism, McCarthyism, racism, sexism, homophobia, guilt by religion, more...

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