guilty

The debate has resurfaced after the Premier League announced last week that an independent commission had found the club guilty on more than 100 charges of breaking financial rules.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

He pleaded guilty on advice that he had little chance at winning at trial.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

“NAZA” eschews probing for guilty feelings, though, because the point is to unearth a process of obliteration: how it works and what it looks like as implemented by the willing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Duffy and Acranom’s president, Salvatore Monarca, pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe Diamantis—as did Construction Advocacy Professionals’ owner, Antonietta Roy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

‘I didn’t even know the buck was yours! How can I be guilty if I didn’t know?’

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

A guiltier pleasure is attempting to go above and beyond anything your parents may have done for you.

From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2024

This would make any nurse look guiltier with each job change.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 18, 2023

She wrote that his “fictionalized version of me is just the tabloid conspiracy guiltier version of me.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2021

Given that criticising someone for feeling guilty is only going to make them feel guiltier, guilt has, as we’ve seen, proved a tricky opponent – one that its various modern combatants have yet to defeat.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 3, 2017

As soon as he was free again, he returned to Blanca, thinner, guiltier, and with deeper rings under his eyes, a new song on his guitar, and a wealth of never-ending caresses for her.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

For the brave viewer ready to commit to the summer’s guiltiest pleasure, here’s a complete guide.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2022

A John Mitchell, the campaign director, who Mason always thought looked the guiltiest.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2018

Last year, British Vogue announced “The Return of the Ugg Boot”, declaring them “our guiltiest fashion pleasure … the sheepskin Ugg is no longer the preserve of a hungover milk run, or the yummy mummy.”

From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2016

But as of today, you are as guilty as your guiltiest client, and your representation of that client—especially if it is both zealous and successful—is now disqualifying as well.

From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2014

Josie couldn’t even tell which specific scene he was talking about, or which awful thing one of them had done to the other she felt maddest or guiltiest about.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix