Concept cluster: Negative qualities > Guilt
n
Obsolete form of obeisance. [Demonstration of an obedient attitude, especially by bowing deeply; a deep bow which demonstrates such an attitude.]
n
(literary) An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
adj
Deserving to be banned.
adv
In a blamable manner; in a manner deserving blame
adj
Obsolete form of blameworthy. [Deserving blame or censure; reprehensible.]
adj
blameworthy
adj
Deserving blame or censure; reprehensible.
adv
In a contrite manner.
adj
Obsolete form of culpable. [Meriting condemnation, censure or blame, especially as something wrong, harmful or injurious; blameworthy, guilty.]
n
(law) Gross negligence subject to criminal liability.
adv
In a culpable manner.
adj
Causing demerit.
v
(Ireland, Catholicism, colloquial, dated) repent too late of one's sins; (hence) be damned
n
A feeling of guilt about damage done to the natural environment.
adj
(law) Done with intent to commit a crime.
v
Alternative spelling of forbade, the simple past tense of forbid. [simple past tense of forbid]
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To be guilty.
n
The regret of having done wrong.
n
(psychology) A persistent or excessive sense of guilt.
n
(idiomatic) A feeling of shame or embarrassment, especially if self-indulgent, unwarranted, exaggerated or felt over a significant period of time.
adj
Having a strong sense of guilt.
adj
Sickened by consciousness of guilt.
adj
(informal) Intended to induce a sense of guilt or shame in others.
adj
Archaic spelling of guilty. [Responsible for a dishonest act.]
adj
Alternative spelling of guilt-ridden [Having a strong sense of guilt.]
adj
Having a sense of guilt.
n
A feeling of guiltiness, as if one has done something wrong.
n
Empathy for the situation of the poor and working class and shame and remorse for one’s affluence, associated with liberal political views.
adv
(law) in bad faith
n
(law) The criminal intent which precedes a crime, especially murder.
n
(law) Provable intent to commit a crime or otherwise do harm.
n
(law) The Latin phrase used in law to refer to crimes that are illegal from the nature of crime, that is, inherently evil without any fact of being noticed or punished, as opposed to malum prohibitum. Used to develop common law crimes.
adj
Singled out; suspicious; treated with hostility; the object of vengeance.
n
(often in the plural) A feeling of shame, guilt, or embarrassment, resulting from behavior which one regrets.
n
(obsolete) An offender.
n
(Christianity) A group of mortal sins referenced in the Bible as those for which God will take retribution.
adv
In a penitent manner.
adj
Requiring atonement or reparation: wicked, sinful, bad.
n
Obsolete form of profanation. [The act of profaning; desecration, blasphemous behaviour, defilement.]
n
Punishment, punitiveness.
adj
Full of feelings of regret, indulging in regrets.
adv
(proscribed) Unfortunately, in a manner inspiring or deserving regret; used only as a sentence adverb (to introduce and modify an entire sentence).
adv
In a manner inspiring or deserving regret.
adj
Blameworthy, censurable, guilty.
adv
reproachfully
adj
reproachable; worthy of reproof or censure
n
The act of reproving.
n
A person who sins or has sinned by the action or identity indicated or previously mentioned
adj
(informal) In a bedraggled or wretched state.
n
A mental condition that occurs when a person perceives themselves to have done wrong by surviving a traumatic event while others did not.
n
Synonym of survivor guilt
n
An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.

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