guilt

Definition

  • noun: responsibility for a crime or for doing something bad or wrong
  • noun: the fact of having committed a breach of conduct especially violating law and involving a penalty
  • synonyms: crime, criminality, blam

Examples

  • The speaker 'laid/put a (big) guilt trip on' us [=tried to make us feel bad or sorry] by describing in detail how much waste the average American generates.

  • “I guess you're just too busy to call.” “I don't need the 'guilt trip', Mom. If you want me to call more often, just say so.”

  • He's not entirely to blame, but he's not 'guiltless' [='innocent'], either.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Yes. For four of us. It's a small pig. I really wanted to use the box. It was my birthday present. She's guilty she's leaving. It's a guilt pig roasting box. At least you get something. I'm not getting laid for a year too. But what do I get? A baby? You can't eat it. Are we really gonna eat that? (..)
    2013 TvShow: Orange Is the New Black Title: I Wasn't Ready Season: 1 Episode 1
  • (..) WOMAN: James! Phillipa! Come on in! Come on! All right, let's go. I left my children behind and I have been trying to buy my way back ever since. Your guilt defines her. It's what powers her. But you are not responsible for the idea that destroyed her. And if we are gonna succeed in this... (..)
    2010 Inception
  • (..) How you have threatened to kill me. - Why did you do this? - I love you, Dom. Why did...? Why would you do this to me? I have freed you from the guilt of choosing to leave them. We're going home to our real children. Oh, no, no, no, Mal, you listen to me, all right? Mal, look at me, please? (..)
    2010 Inception