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feloniousness, wrongdoing, misconduct: Confronted by the<br />

evidence, Shillingworth admitted his guilt. 2 remorse,<br />

self-reproach, regret, sorrow, contrition, repentance, shame,<br />

contriteness, self-condemnation, bad conscience: That feeling<br />

of guilt would plague me for the rest of my life.<br />

guilty adj. 1 responsible, culpable, answerable, blameworthy, at<br />

fault, delinquent, wrong; offending, reprehensible: Whoever was<br />

guilty will be prosecuted. First we must find the guilty party.<br />

2 remorseful, contrite, regretful, sorry, apologetic, repentant,<br />

sorrowful, conscience-stricken, rueful, penitent; ashamed,<br />

shame-faced, sheepish, embarrassed, red-faced: Gavin felt<br />

terribly guilty for having insulted Tina.<br />

guise<br />

n. 1 appearance, aspect, semblance, look, image, likeness,<br />

mien; air, behaviour, conduct, deportment, comportment, bearing,<br />

demeanour: This is nothing but an old political concept in a<br />

new guise. 2 semblance, disguise, fa‡ade, front, pretence: The<br />

treacherous Lothario assumed the guise of a knight in shining<br />

armour.<br />

gulf<br />

n. 1 bay, bight, cove, inlet, sound, loch or sea loch, firth or<br />

frith, fiord or fjord, Irish lough, Brit creek: We sailed into<br />

the gulf to shelter from the wind behind the cliffs. 2 chasm,<br />

deep, depth, abyss, abysm, void, space, opening, rift, breach,<br />

gap, separation, rift, split: After the divorce, the gulf<br />

between us widened even further.<br />

gullible adj. innocent, green, simple, credulous, unsophisticated,<br />

na‹ve, unsuspecting, unwary, unsuspicious, wide-eyed, born<br />

yesterday, inexperienced, immature: He was gullible enough to<br />

fall for the old con game, three-card monte.<br />

gully<br />

gulp<br />

n. gulley, channel, river-bed, watercourse, gorge, ravine,<br />

canyon, notch, cut, pass, defile, valley, corridor, wadi, Brit<br />

gill or ghyll, W US arroyo , US and Canadian gulch: We rode<br />

along in the gully so as not to be seen.<br />

v. 1 bolt, gobble, wolf (down), devour, gorge, swallow, throw<br />

down, toss off, quaff, guzzle, swill, Colloq knock back, swig,<br />

US chug-a-lug: The boy gulped his dinner and ran out to play.<br />

2 swallow, suppress, stifle, choke (back), smother, strangle:<br />

She gulped back her tears as the coffin was lowered.

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