Synonyms: guilty, hangdog, shamed, shamefaced
Definition: showing a sense of guilt
Usage: a guilty look; the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy- Eric Linklater
Similar words: ashamed
Definition: feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse
Usage: are you ashamed for having lied?; felt ashamed of my torn coat
Synonyms: guilty
Definition: responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act
Usage: guilty of murder; the guilty person; secret guilty deeds
Similar words: at fault
Definition: deserving blame
Usage: admitted to being at fault
Similar words: culpable, blamable, blameable, blameful, blameworthy, censurable
Definition: deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious
Usage: blameworthy if not criminal behavior; censurable misconduct; culpable negligence
Similar words: bloodguilty
Definition: guilty of murder or bloodshed
Similar words: chargeable, indictable
Definition: liable to be accused, or cause for such liability
Usage: the suspect was chargeable; an indictable offense
Similar words: conscience-smitten
Definition: affected by conscience
Similar words: criminal
Definition: guilty of crime or serious offense
Usage: criminal in the sight of God and man
Similar words: delinquent
Definition: guilty of a misdeed
Usage: delinquent minors
Similar words: finable, fineable
Definition: liable to a fine
Similar words: guilt-ridden
Definition: feeling or revealing a sense of guilt
Usage: so guilt-ridden he could not face his father
Similar words: punishable
Definition: liable to or deserving punishment
Usage: punishable offenses
Similar words: red-handed
Definition: in the act of committing a crime or other reprehensible act
Usage: caught red-handed