Usage of "guilty conscience"

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Remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense.

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Examples for "guilt"

I wrote recently about unjustified guilt felt by victims of child abuse. 
 The Irish Times 

Some might suspect a rearguard action at work; anthropomorphic guilt by association. 
 The Guardian 

Devlin felt a strange guilt at adding to the already complex situation. 
 Radiant Shadows 

There's a different quality to his voice now: haunted, saturated with guilt. 
 The Girl on the Train 

I learned a long time ago that guilt will never stop me. 
 Desert places: a novel of terror 

Psychologists can remove guilt feelings, but only God can remove real guilt. 
 Three philosophies of life 

Unlike Freud, they realize that guilt feelings are not all sexually based. 
 Mastering your Hidden Self 

I experienced some old guilt feelings and had a few disturbing dreams. 
 The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth 

Think of the guilt feelings involved in the latter. 
 A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis 

Don't take all your guilt feelings out on me. 
 A Confederacy of Dunces 

Mike was bearing in, trying to lay a guilt trip on me. 
 The forever war 

I don't care what you've done, a guilt trip is always crazy. 
 The illuminatus! trilogy 

They want to be given a break, not a guilt trip. 
 The Irish Times 

It was easier to take his guilt trip than to take my own. 
 The illuminatus! trilogy 

A four-legged guilt trip to follow you around like a hairy to do list. 
 The Guardian 

Uso de guilty conscience em inglês

Doubt and a guilty conscience can do a lot when you're alone. 
 Patient Zero 

He speaks our sin at every word; our guilty conscience knows it. 
 The Riches of Bunyan: Selected from His Works 

Was it just his guilty conscience, or did they suspect him already? 
 Exposure 

The difference is that you have a guilty conscience, and I don't. 
 The increment: a novel 

I wondered if part of the outrage came from a guilty conscience. 
 Moon Over Soho 

There was positively nothing in her deportment to betray a guilty conscience. 
 The New Penelope, and Other Stories and Poems 

A guilty conscience needs no accuser if you catch him at it. 
 The Silly Syclopedia / A Terrible Thing in the Form of a Literar... 

The jay, like the cuckoo, is a bird with a guilty conscience. 
 The Pleasures of Ignorance 

His daughter appeared to my guilty conscience to be looking through me. 
 Love Among the Chickens 

He had a guilty conscience, and that contributed to his bad mood. 
 The girl who played with fire 

Maria Pelati was a woman torn, an archaeologist with a guilty conscience. 
 Sign of the cross 

I was to be confessed, then, of my guilty conscience, before retiring? 
 The Enormous Room 

You know that's not the whole truth-theman's got an overly guilty conscience. 
 Any way you want me 

This bizarre vision that triggered your guilty conscience doesn't change that. 
 By reason of insanity 

Next day went again & kept up visits with guilty conscience. 
 The new yorker 

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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Guilty conscience ao longo do tempo

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Significados de guilty conscience em inglês