Synonyms for guilt
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1. guilt

   Sin is any lack of holiness, any defect of moral purity and truth, whether in heart or life, whether of commission or omission. "All unrighteousness is sin," 1 John v, 17. Transgression, as its etymology indicates, is the stepping over a specific enactment, whether of God or man, ordinarily by overt act, but in the broadest sense, in volition or desire. Sin may be either act or state; transgression is always an act, mental or physical. Crime is often used for a flagrant violation of right, but in the technical sense denotes specific violation of human law. Guilt is desert of and exposure to punishment because of sin. Depravity denotes not any action, but a perverted moral condition from which any act of sin may proceed. Sin in the generic sense, as denoting a state of heart, is synonymous with depravity; in the specific sense, as in the expression a sin, the term may be synonymous with transgression, crime, offense, misdeed, etc., or may denote some moral activity that could not be characterized by terms so positive. Immorality denotes outward violation of the moral law. Sin is thus the broadest word, and immorality next in scope; all crimes, properly so called, and all immoralities, are sins; but there may be sin, as ingratitude, which is neither crime, transgression, nor immorality; and there may be immorality which is not crime, as falsehood. Compare CRIMINAL.

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   Synonyms:
   crime, criminality, delinquency, depravity, evil, fault, ill-doing, immorality, iniquity, misdeed, offense, sin, transgression, ungodliness, unrighteousness, vice, viciousness, wickedness, wrong, wrong-doing

   Antonyms:
   blamelessness, excellence, godliness, goodness, holiness, innocence, integrity, morality, purity, rectitude, right, righteousness, sinlessness, uprightness, virtue

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1. guilt

   Synonyms:
   criminality, sin, offence, culpability

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1. guilt, guiltinessnoun

   the state of having committed an offense

   Synonyms:
   guilt trip, guilty conscience, guilt feelings, guiltiness

   Antonyms:
   innocence

2. guilt, guilty conscience, guilt feelings, guilt tripnoun

   remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense

   Synonyms:
   guilt trip, guilty conscience, guilt feelings, guiltiness

   Antonyms:
   innocence

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1. entschuldigen

   a new approach to what was hastily handled, more inline to the actuality.

   an attitudinal difference from her reaction after considering the nuisances

   Submitted by greenwriter60 on March 30, 2019  

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1. guiltnoun

   Synonyms:
   criminality, guiltiness, culpability

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1. guiltnoun

   Synonyms:
   criminality, guiltiness, complicity, culpability, crime, wrong, offense, transgression, sin

   Antonyms:
   innocence, inculpability

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1. List of paraphrases for "guilt":

   culpability, guilty, blame, remorse, fault, culpa, conviction, culprit

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1. Sheri Pewitt:

   The #MeToo movement is long overdue, it is a sensitive matter that evokes strong emotions; it should and it must evoke those emotions. Even so, an accusation does not equal guilt and we must not lose sight of due process along the way. Our democracy and the foundation for a functioning justice system depend upon it.

2. Allison Keene of Collider.com:

   ( It) deals with complex themes of guilt, obsession and grief, it is also much more of a character study than I was expecting.

3. Susan Lucci:

   I've had the opportunity to say to women, give yourself permission to take care of yourself, you are the caretaker for everyone around you, and if you're not well, they're not going to get taken care of either. So be guilt-free, put yourself on that to-do list. Your wellbeing is great for you, and it's great for everyone you love, who loves you.

4. Steven Molo:

   These were statements where the U.S. Attorney excoriated the defendant, basically deprived him of the assumption of innocence and extolled his guilt.

5. Justice Chris Maxwell:

   Having had regard to the whole of the evidence led at trial, and having deliberated long and hard over this matter, I find Justice Chris Maxwell in the position of having a genuine doubt as to( Pell's) guilt, my doubt is a doubt which the jury ought also to have had.