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  • as inat fault
  • as inguilty

synonyms for on one's head

  • blameworthy
  • culpable
  • erring
  • guilty
  • in error
  • in the wrong
  • liable
  • responsible
  • to blame
  • wrong
  • convicted
  • culpable
  • liable
  • remorseful
  • responsible
  • sorry
  • wrong
  • accusable
  • caught
  • censurable
  • censured
  • chargeable
  • condemned
  • conscience-stricken
  • contrite
  • convictable
  • criminal
  • damned
  • delinquent
  • depraved
  • doomed
  • erring
  • evil
  • felonious
  • hangdog
  • incriminated
  • in error
  • iniquitous
  • in the wrong
  • judged
  • licentious
  • offending
  • out of line
  • proscribed
  • regretful
  • reprehensible
  • rueful
  • sentenced
  • sheepish
  • sinful
  • wicked
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
On this page you'll find 63 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to on one's head, such as: blameworthy, culpable, erring, guilty, in error, and in the wrong.
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How to use on one's head in a sentence

Madame Ratignolle, more careful of her complexion, had twined a gauze veil about her head.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPIN
Only in the carnage of the head, the tilt of the chin, was the insolence expressed that had made her many enemies.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
She sat straight up in bed, and jerked her hands to her head, and screamed long and terribly.
THE HOMESTEADEROSCAR MICHEAUX
A fancy came into my head that I would entertain the king and queen with an English tune upon this instrument.
GULLIVER'S TRAVELSJONATHAN SWIFT
He didn't need to wait—as the birds did—until an angleworm stuck his head above ground.
THE TALE OF GRANDFATHER MOLEARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY
On his head was the second-hand hat of some parvenu's coachman, gold lace, cockade and all.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
Ripperda's eye fell upon the mantle,—it was discoloured a dark red in many places, he nodded his head, and the man withdrew.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTER
Fanning and Wharton were to make head against the infantry and cavalry.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUS
He frowned, and bent his head, and his long hair fell over his face, while the poor Stuttgardter sat there like a beaten hound.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAY
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO ON ONE'S HEAD

  • blameworthy
  • culpable
  • erring
  • guilty
  • in error
  • in the wrong
  • liable
  • on one's head
  • responsible
  • to blame
  • wrong
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.