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Meanings of guilty conscience in English

Portuguese
culpa
Catalan
culpabilitat
Spanish
culpabilidad

Remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense.

        culpa
        Usage of guilty conscience in English
        1
        Doubt and a guilty conscience can do a lot when you're alone.
        Patient Zero
        2
        He speaks our sin at every word; our guilty conscience knows it.
        The Riches of Bunyan: Selected from His Works
        3
        Was it just his guilty conscience, or did they suspect him already?
        Exposure
        4
        The difference is that you have a guilty conscience, and I don't.
        The increment: a novel
        5
        I wondered if part of the outrage came from a guilty conscience.
        Moon Over Soho
        6
        There was positively nothing in her deportment to betray a guilty conscience.
        The New Penelope, and Other Stories and Poems
        7
        A guilty conscience needs no accuser if you catch him at it.
        The Silly Syclopedia / A Terrible Thing in the Form of a Literar...
        8
        The jay, like the cuckoo, is a bird with a guilty conscience.
        The Pleasures of Ignorance
        9
        His daughter appeared to my guilty conscience to be looking through me.
        Love Among the Chickens
        10
        He had a guilty conscience, and that contributed to his bad mood.
        The girl who played with fire
        11
        Maria Pelati was a woman torn, an archaeologist with a guilty conscience.
        Sign of the cross
        12
        I was to be confessed, then, of my guilty conscience, before retiring?
        The Enormous Room
        13
        You know that's not the whole truth-theman's got an overly guilty conscience.
        Any way you want me
        14
        This bizarre vision that triggered your guilty conscience doesn't change that.
        By reason of insanity
        15
        Next day went again & kept up visits with guilty conscience.
        The new yorker
        16
        The guilty conscience on Baluchistan was beginning to affect the brass.
        The duel: pakistan on the flight path of american power
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        Translations for guilty conscience
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        culpa
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