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Synonyms for guilty

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  1. Convicted

    found guilty, guilty as charged, condemned, sentenced, criminal, censured, impeached, incriminated, indicted, liable, condemned, proscribed, having violated law, weighed and found wanting, judged, damned, doomed, cast into outer darkness.

    Antonyms cleared, vindicated, absolved.

  2. Culpable

    at fault, sinful, on one's head, to blame, in the wrong, in error, accusable, censurable, wrong, blameworthy, blamable, reproachable, derelict, chargeable, indictable, convictable, looking like the cat that swallowed the canary*, caught red-handed*, caught with one's pants down*, caught with one's hand in the cookie jar*.

    Antonyms blameless, innocent*, right.

  3. Wicked

    evil, depraved, licentious; see wicked 1.

See guilty in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II

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