English-French translations for guilty

• coupable
  La Commission fait partie des coupables. The Commission is one guilty party.
  De quel crime ces gens sont-ils coupables? What crime are these people guilty of?
  Pour ma part, je suis coupable de m'y tenir. Well, I am guilty because I still do it.
• culpabiliser
  Je ne veux en aucune manière culpabiliser quiconque. I by no means want to make anyone feel guilty.
  Culpabiliser les gens n'aide personne et, en plus, est une piètre politique, mais il faut présenter les faits sans détour. Making people feel guilty helps no one and is, moreover, a poor policy, but the facts have to be stated.

Definition of guilty

• Responsible for a dishonest act
• Judged to have committed a crime
• Having a sense of guilt
• Blameworthy
• A plea by a defendant who does not contest a charge
• One who is declared guilty of a crime

Examples

• He was guilty of cheating at cards
• The guilty man was led away
• Do you have a guilty conscience?
• I have a guilty secret

Related words

• nonguilty
• unguilty
• guilty; culpable
• guilty party
• guilty pleasure
• guilty conscience
• guilty person
• not guilty
• plead guilty