guilty person
Example Sentences
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"A guilty person does not say 'keep testing, test this, test that'."
From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026
“If my work results even in one person not getting wrongly convicted, or one guilty person not going free, then it’s worth all the grief I’ve been getting,” he says.
From Science Magazine • May 12, 2022
“All confessions that were given, at the time of the detective’s interview, were both vetted and corroborated based off of intimate knowledge of the crime only a guilty person would know,” he said.
From Washington Times • Feb. 25, 2021
The neighbor “did exactly what a guilty person would do,” while Fair helped clean up after the party and spent that Sunday watching football, Vernon said.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2017
The guilty person was a very handsome man in his early thirties.
From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang
