Definition of Guiltily

1. Adverb. In the manner of someone who has committed an offense. "She blushed guiltily as she spoke"

Partainyms: Guilty

Definition of Guiltily

1. adv. In a guilty manner.

Definition of Guiltily

1. Adverb. In a guilty manner; as if guilty ¹

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Definition of Guiltily

1. guilty [adv] - See also: guilty

Lexicographical Neighbors of Guiltily

guilt-ridden
guilt-sick
guilt feelings
guilt pang
guilt trip
guilt trips
guilted
guilter
guilters
guiltfree
guiltie
guiltier
guilties
guiltiest
guiltily (current term)
guiltiness
guiltinesses
guilting
guiltless
guiltlessly
guiltlessness
guiltlessnesses
guiltlike
guiltridden
guilts
guiltware
guilty
guilty as sin
guilty conscience

Literary usage of Guiltily

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Helen's Babies: With Some Account of Their Ways Innocent, Crafty, Angelic by John Habberton (1876)
"... looked at me inquiringly, and she now tells me that I blushed (sheepishly and guiltily. Poor Mrs. Mayton staggered to a chair, and exclaimed: — "Too ..."

2. Christian Ethics by Adolf Wuttke, John Power Lacroix (1873)
"The consciousness of a guiltily-incurred moral ... Not the rational creature, not man, has guiltily fallen, but a god ; the divine is itself hostilely ..."

3. Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England, for the Liberty of by John Milton (1819)
"We have a development of what is meant by the expression " holding the Truth guiltily," in the succeeding extract from his latest Publication: " With good ..."

4. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"The father may feel proud of his twenty per cent or thirty per cent stocks; but when the devil clutches the son for guiltily spending what he clutched the ..."

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