guilty
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A Milwaukee County judge found Romo guilty of the charge and took away his driving privileges for six months.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
What does Man City guilty verdict mean for their squad?
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Manchester City confirmed Friday they had launched an appeal against a damning judgement that found the club guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
A subsequent circuit court of appeals judge would also write that a “rational juror” could not have supported a vote of guilty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
I feel guilty about holding her ex-boyfriend’s hand at her party, but judging by the way she’s looking at Owen, I think she’s moved on.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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
They feel guilty for watching, but guiltier for not watching.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 28, 2019
He’s not ready for me like he usually is, which makes me feel even guiltier.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
That’s a shame, because the airline’s 11 outside directors are arguably the guiltiest of the guilty parties in the company’s recent fiasco, the most deserving of obloquy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2023
It’s a very human impulse to always be angriest about the things you’re guiltiest of doing to other people.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 11, 2018
The person who comes out looking guiltiest isn’t Trump or Pence.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2017
The guiltiest of pleasures might be derived from the annual chronicles of bonus season on Wall Street.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2013
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
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