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feloniousness, wrongdoing, misconduct: Confronted by the
evidence, Shillingworth admitted his guilt. 2 remorse,
self-reproach, regret, sorrow, contrition, repentance, shame,
contriteness, self-condemnation, bad conscience: That feeling
of guilt would plague me for the rest of my life.
guilty adj. 1 responsible, culpable, answerable, blameworthy, at
fault, delinquent, wrong; offending, reprehensible: Whoever was
guilty will be prosecuted. First we must find the guilty party.
2 remorseful, contrite, regretful, sorry, apologetic, repentant,
sorrowful, conscience-stricken, rueful, penitent; ashamed,
shame-faced, sheepish, embarrassed, red-faced: Gavin felt
terribly guilty for having insulted Tina.
guise n. 1 appearance, aspect, semblance, look, image, likeness,
mien; air, behaviour, conduct, deportment, comportment, bearing,
demeanour: This is nothing but an old political concept in a
new guise. 2 semblance, disguise, fa‡ade, front, pretence: The
treacherous Lothario assumed the guise of a knight in shining
armour.
gulf n. 1 bay, bight, cove, inlet, sound, loch or sea loch, firth or
frith, fiord or fjord, Irish lough, Brit creek: We sailed into
the gulf to shelter from the wind behind the cliffs. 2 chasm,
deep, depth, abyss, abysm, void, space, opening, rift, breach,
gap, separation, rift, split: After the divorce, the gulf
between us widened even further.
gullible adj. innocent, green, simple, credulous, unsophisticated,
na‹ve, unsuspecting, unwary, unsuspicious, wide-eyed, born
yesterday, inexperienced, immature: He was gullible enough to
fall for the old con game, three-card monte.
gully n. gulley, channel, river-bed, watercourse, gorge, ravine,
canyon, notch, cut, pass, defile, valley, corridor, wadi, Brit
gill or ghyll, W US arroyo , US and Canadian gulch: We rode
along in the gully so as not to be seen.
gulp v. 1 bolt, gobble, wolf (down), devour, gorge, swallow, throw
down, toss off, quaff, guzzle, swill, Colloq knock back, swig,
US chug-a-lug: The boy gulped his dinner and ran out to play.
2 swallow, suppress, stifle, choke (back), smother, strangle:
She gulped back her tears as the coffin was lowered.