guilt
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2.4
- noun
- /ɡɪlt/
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- Do not let friends, family, or guilt get the best of you.
- feel guilt
- guilt feelings
- burden of guilt
And then you feel guilt about the rage.
- And then you feel guilt about the rage.
- No blame, no shame, no guilt, no justification.
- Do you carry a lot of survival's guilt from from that up?
- And this can bring up tremendous grief, guilt and other complex emotions.
- Yeah, Because that that guilt will eat you from the inside out.
- They come in the form of regret, guilt, and remorse.
- How do we express OH or embarrassment, guilt, pain?
- And I think the bigger thing there is guilt blocks growth.
- Do not let friends, family, or guilt get the best of you.
- She must have lived a life of so much guilt and remorse.
Examples
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I am driven by guilt, guilt and gratitude.
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But more than all of these feelings is the guilt that I feel every time my shift is over.
Academic text (2015) -
I grew up with all that guilt about the things.
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Or you may feel guilt when you hear their story.
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I remember feeling guilt for feeling joy.
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I cannot bear the guilt.
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But many people suffer from guilt and shame.
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I do feel a sense of guilt for having created this separation.
Academic text (2015) -
Then she was struck with a miserable wave of guilt because she tried to block him out.
Fiction book (1990) -
She felt a deep sense of guilt after lying to her best friend.
Synonyms
418
2.3
A painful feeling of guilt and embarrassment about something you did wrong
156
4.5
A deep, painful feeling of regret and guilt after doing something wrong
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6.6
A feeling of deep regret and a wish to change after doing wrong
19
8.4
A deep feeling of regret and sorrow for something you did wrong
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4.2
A feeling of being sorry and worried after doing something wrong
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9.6
A feeling of guilt that stops you from doing something bad or follows it
4
7.9
A feeling of being sorry for something you did wrong
1
4.9
A feeling that you did something wrong or illegal
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7.1
A feeling of blaming yourself for something you did wrong
A deep feeling of regret and sorrow for doing something wrong
Antonyms
Compounds
8
7.0
Blaming someone for bad acts because they are friends with guilty people, without proof
2
8.3
A strong sadness and the feeling that it is your fault for being alive when other people died
How Guilty
Surface Forms
Etymology
Guilt originally meant a wrong or a debt (old English gylt), and that idea of 'owing' moved inside people as a bad feeling about what they did, so guilt today is the remorse or bad feeling you have when you believe you did something wrong.