guiltiness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for guiltiness
Noun
  • That feeling of guilt, in other words, can be better described as fear of missing out.
    Arpon Basu, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Whether tackling working-parent guilt or the challenges of caring for a newborn, some of the most popular video games are telling stories that tap into contemporary anxieties about parenting.
    G Kirilloff, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Trump’s accelerationist instincts, the zeal of his fan base, and the complicity, cowardice, and inaction of the Democratic Party in the face of the governing Republican trifecta made the possibility of a military dictatorship in the United States seem borderline plausible.
    Seth Harp, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Instead, Simms gave Houck life in prison, with the additional five years for his complicity to tampering with physical evidence charge running concurrently.
    Killian Baarlaer, Louisville Courier Journal, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But unlike the billions of other web-using inhabitants of planet Earth, the 72-year-old Canter feels an ever-so-slight twinge of culpability for all that digital junk that rockets across the internet each day.
    Johnny Dodd, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Naming an interstate war based on the state in which the war is fought – while omitting the name of outside instigators – implies the culpability of that state.
    Esther Brito Ruiz, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Guiltiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guiltiness. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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