Guiltily

Definition

guilt / gÇlt / n ၁။ [U] ( law ) အျပစ္ရိွျခင္း။ The prosecution established his guilt beyond all doubt. ၂။ [U] အျပစ္။ တာဝန္။ find out where the guilt lies ( ie who is blame) ❍ Guilt was written all over her face (ie She obviously felt guilty). ၃။ [U,C] စိတ္မသန္႔ျခင္း။ လိပ္ျပာမလံုျခင္း။ He was haunted by feelings/ by a sense of guilt because he had not done enough to help his sick friend. ❍ This is no time for guilts and misgivings. ❍ ( psychology ) a guilt complex. အျပစ္စြဲစိတ္ထား။ ❏ guiltily /-Çli / adv မလံုမလဲျဖစ္ေသာစိတ္ျဖင့္။ She looked up guiltily as I came in. ❏ guiltless adj အျပစ္ကင္းစင္ေသာ။ None of us is entirely guiltless in this affair. ❏ guilty adj ( -ier, -iest ) ၁။ ~ (of sth) ( esp law ) အျပစ္ရိွေသာ။ plead guilty to a crime ❍ The jury found the defendant guilty/ not guilty. ❍ The train driver was guilty of negligence (eg in causing a crash). ❍ the guilty party (ie the person to blame). ၂။ စိတ္မသိုးမသန္႔ ျဖစ္ေသာ။ လိပ္ျပာမသန္႔ေသာ။ look guilty ❍ I feel guilty about visiting her so rarely. ❍ have a guilty conscience (ie be troubled by feelings of guilt).

Examples

1. Instead of satisfaction she felt only guilt.
2. [guilt about/at/for/over] : I often felt swamped by guilt at having left my children.
3. [feeling/sense of guilt] : Her husband’s death left her with an overwhelming sense of guilt.
4. [twinge/pang of guilt] : She felt a sudden twinge of guilt.
5. It now remains for the jury to decide on the defendant’s guilt or innocence.