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Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.
Thor Heyerdahl

Meaning of "guilty conscience" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GUILTY CONSCIENCE

guilty conscience  [ˈɡɪltɪ ˈkɒnʃəns] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GUILTY CONSCIENCE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Guilty conscience is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GUILTY CONSCIENCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Guilt (emotion)

Guilt is a cognitive or an emotional experience that occurs when a person realizes or believes—accurately or not—that he or she has compromised his or her own standards of conduct or has violated a moral standard, and bears significant responsibility for that violation. It is closely related to the concept of remorse.

Definition of guilty conscience in the English dictionary

The definition of guilty conscience in the dictionary is a feeling of guilt about something you have done because you know it was wrong.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GUILTY CONSCIENCE


affections
əˈfɛkʃəns
conscience
ˈkɒnʃəns
consentience
kənˈsɛnʃəns
convolutions
ˌkɒnvəˈluːʃəns
deficience
dɪˈfɪʃəns
dissentience
dɪˈsɛnʃəns
impatience
ɪmˈpeɪʃəns
insufficience
ˌɪnsəˈfɪʃəns
Lutyens
ˈlʌtʃəns
patience
ˈpeɪʃəns
proficience
prəˈfɪʃəns
sentience
ˈsɛnʃəns
sufficience
səˈfɪʃəns

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GUILTY CONSCIENCE

guiler
Guilin
Guillaume de Lorris
Guillem
guillemet
guillemot
guilloche
guillotine
guillotiner
guilt
guilt complex
guiltier
guiltiest
guiltily
guiltiness
guiltless
guiltlessly
guiltlessness
guilty
guilty party

WORDS THAT END LIKE GUILTY CONSCIENCE

ambience
at your convenience
at your earliest convenience
audience
Bachelor of Science
computer science
conference
convenience
experience
geoscience
inconvenience
life science
Master of Science
neuroscience
obedience
political science
resilience
science
social science
target audience
work experience

Synonyms and antonyms of guilty conscience in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «guilty conscience» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GUILTY CONSCIENCE

Find out the translation of guilty conscience to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of guilty conscience from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «guilty conscience» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

做贼心虚
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

conciencia culpable
570 millions of speakers

English

guilty conscience
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दोषी अंतरात्मा की आवाज
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ضمير
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

совесть
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

consciência culpada
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দোষী বিবেক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

conscience coupable
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hati nurani bersalah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

schlechtes Gewissen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

罪悪感
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

양심의 가책
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Guilty conscience
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lương tâm tội lỗi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குற்றவாளி மனசாட்சி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दोषी विवेकबुद्धी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

vicdan azabı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

coscienza sporca
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nieczyste sumienie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

совість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

conștiință vinovată
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ένοχη συνείδηση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skuldige gewete
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dåligt samvete
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dårlig samvittighet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of guilty conscience

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GUILTY CONSCIENCE»

The term «guilty conscience» is normally little used and occupies the 108.496 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GUILTY CONSCIENCE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «guilty conscience» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «guilty conscience» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about guilty conscience

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4 QUOTES WITH «GUILTY CONSCIENCE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word guilty conscience.
1
Albert Camus
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
2
Michael Haneke
There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it.
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Thor Heyerdahl
Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.
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Carolyn Wells
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GUILTY CONSCIENCE»

Discover the use of guilty conscience in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to guilty conscience and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Guilty Conscience
When Evelyn Henshaw comes to Rosa Epton's office demanding that in the event of her disappearance her husband be investigated for murder, Rosa is more than a little doubtful.
Michael Underwood, 2013
2
Eminem & Dr. Dre: Guilty Conscience
This criticism is often unfounded since many critics do not even listen to the whole work (often relying on media representations or “sound bites”) and often ignore the importance of context.
Lyle De Souza, Tomiko Minami, 2006
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A cyclopaedia of illustrations of moral and religious ...
If such were the feelings excited by a near view of the character of Socrates, how much more overwhelming must be the feelings created by a view of the infinite purity of God by a guilty conscience ? Hence the conduct of sinners who have any ...
John Bate, 1865
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The Lay Preacher
He had a guilty conscience, and the voice of a brother's blood was for ever sounding in his ears. In the brethren of Joseph, conscience would not fall asleep all those years between selling him and meeting him again. But as soon as they were ...
John Bate, 1872
5
A Guilty Conscience Makes a Rebel, Or, Rulers No Terrour to ...
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Milbourne Luke, 2009
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The Homilist; or, The pulpit for the people, conducted by D. ...
The most delightful music has lost its charms and is offensive, and the soothing and refreshing angel of sleep spreads its pinions, and departs. Cain, Bel- shazzar, Judas, felt the agonies of a guilty conscience intolerable. But could not Darius ...
David Thomas, 1882
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The Christian Treasury
Now, a guilty conscience clothes nature in sackcloth ; a guilty conscience will make the sweetest cup bitter ; a guilty conscience will people the night with spectres ; a guilty conscience will turn a downy pillow into a bed of thorns; and a guilty ...
‎1846
8
The Guardian
The accusations of a guilty conscience are God's police, whose detective pursuit no mortal can escape or evade. A criminal may escape the civil arm, but he cannot flee from his conscience. God has placed this court of justice within our ...
‎1877
9
The Christian treasury (and missionary review).
I. Then, the love of God. Now, a guilty conscience clothes nature in sackcloth; a guilty conscience will make the sweetest cup bitter ; a guilty conscience will people the night with spectres ; a guilty conscience will turn a downy pillow into a bed ...
‎1846
10
Religious Library
A GUILTY CONSCIENCE. " And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God." These latter words are spoken, not to persuade us that men can hide themselves from God, but that Adam and those that are his by nature ...
‎1850

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GUILTY CONSCIENCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term guilty conscience is used in the context of the following news items.
1
America's guilty conscience
Of the four living former US presidents -- Jimmy Carter, the elder and the younger Bush, and Bill Clinton -- Clinton and George W Bush are now ... «DhakaTribune, Jul 15»
2
Riding an UberBOAT Across the Bosphorous
... help but enjoy the Uber experience despite something of a guilty conscience; among other things, it felt weird to ride an UberBOAT the same ... «Pacific Standard, Jul 15»
3
Crunchyroll Manga Announces Five New Titles
She wants to retort, but she can't! The eavesdropping short-gag manga full of tension and guilty conscience begins! Takahashi-san is listening ... «Crunchyroll News, Jul 15»
4
Remembering Woodbridge: A History of the Late, Great 'Secret …
This friendship, coupled with his love for Susan, resulted in a tormented and guilty conscience for this former hedonist. EDITOR'S NOTE: Check ... «We Love Soaps, Jul 15»
5
Shenhua open-cut coal mine approval raises wider concerns says …
Now, those big institutions, Sabra, never write out a cheque unless they've got a very guilty conscience. There'll be more questions to be ... «ABC Online, Jul 15»
6
New push to solve Calif. woman's 1977 cold case murder
"It's been so long - maybe somebody has a guilty conscience at this point," her half-brother Pete Garl told 48 Hours' Crimesider. "I'm hoping ... «CBS News, Jul 15»
7
Blistered Brings "Unrelentingly Heavy Hardcore" to Churchill's
Blistered performs with Morning Again, Brethren, Homestretch, Guilty Conscience, and Livid Death. 8 p.m. Saturday, July 11, at Churchill's Pub, ... «New Times Broward-Palm Beach, Jul 15»
8
AFL bikie incident shocks star, day before game
... for a while, I thought maybe I'd done something when I last came here and I haven't remembered,” Swan continued with a guilty conscience. «Sportal.com.au, Jul 15»
9
'Fargo' Season 2 Promos Tease Blood, Minnesotan Boredom (Videos)
Meanwhile, Dunst's beautician character Peggy Blomquist appears to be weighed down by a guilty conscience as she washes her hands ... «TheWrap, Jul 15»
10
Muse: 10 of the best
... album Showbiz, from playing the toilet circuit to the corporate shows mentioned on album opener Sunburn; “I'll feel a guilty conscience grow,” ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»

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