Meaning

Alternative form of guiltylike..

Example Sentences

Once or twice I fancied that I observed a look of still stranger, still wilder expression, when the black ring forms around the eye— when the muscles twitch and quiver along gaunt, famished jaws — when men gaze guilty-like at each other.

He's slowly shifting away from me, guilty-like.

I looked at these blokes we'd just been punching on with and one of them was backing away, guilty-like, so I grabbed him and twisted his arm up his back until it snapped.

Nobody looked guilty-like, and Johnny even said he'd checked the bricks special because of what happened to you, and anyway, they was all sure the cart was much further from the rim than the tracks look like now.

It puts me in a right terrible frame of mind, so guilty-like.

"Now Elsie, don' go feeling guilty-like now,” Thea-Thea said.

To tell the truth, I felt kind of guilty-like. . . . You know, havin' such a whee of a good time. . . . It just didn't seem possible that we could be helpin' anybody when you enjoyin' yourself as much as that. . . .

"Oh, my dear, my dear, I'm afraid not, or else your face wouldn't be so dreadfully red and guilty-like, and I'm sure as your uncle thinks you broke it.”

Word Forms

• more guilty-like
• most guilty-like

When Should You Use Guilty-like?

Use guilty-like when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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