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guiltylike en · ADV

Etymology

From guilty + -like.

Meanings

1. (informal) guiltily
   • That was when Digger kinda hemmed and hawed and scratched his boot soles on the rough ground, and looked at me all guiltylike because he'd forgotten something, and then displayed the dozen cellular phones he'd stashed in his assault pack. 2012, Richard Marcinko, John Weisman, Echo Platoon:
   • I could tell from the way Katie looked up, sort of guiltylike when I came in, that she and her folks had been talking about Katie's sister, Elsie, who lived in Paris 1957, Marrijane Hayes, Joseph Hayes, Bon Voyage!, page 42:
   • So I stole away, guiltylike, an' went down an' stood beside the sea. 1914, Bram Stoker, Greater Love:
   • "I'm fine," he said, and nodded like a marionette, but his eyse were shifting back and forth guiltylike. 2013, Chris Lynch, Shadow Boxer, page 89:
   • No, sure, I cannot think it, / That he would steal away so guiltylike, / Seeing you coming. c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
   • Mike glanced away, guiltylike. "I sold her. Lily left, and I just closed all the doors." 2013, Kathleen Eagle, One Less Lonely Cowboy, page 41:
   • Guiltylike I wail my case, shame of sin doth sting my face, spare me, god, who beg for grace. 1851, Paul de Lagarde, Hymns of the Old Catholic Church of England, page 95:
   • She'd fall into fits of brooding and then jump, guiltylike, when she was roused. 2012, Kate Ross, Cut to the Quick:

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Synonyms

bang to rights · red-handedly · compunctiously · dead to rights · guiltylike · compunctiously · nocently · blameworthily · guiltily · nocently