guilty-like
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.60 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
adj
Example Sentences
- "Once or twice I fancied that I observed a look of still stranger, still wilder expression, when the black ring forms around the eye— when the muscles twitch and quiver along gaunt, famished jaws — when men gaze guilty-like at each other."
- "He's slowly shifting away from me, guilty-like."
- "I looked at these blokes we'd just been punching on with and one of them was backing away, guilty-like, so I grabbed him and twisted his arm up his back until it snapped."
- "Nobody looked guilty-like, and Johnny even said he'd checked the bricks special because of what happened to you, and anyway, they was all sure the cart was much further from the rim than the tracks look like now."
- "It puts me in a right terrible frame of mind, so guilty-like."
- ""Now Elsie, don' go feeling guilty-like now,” Thea-Thea said."
Inflected Forms
more guilty-like (comparative)
most guilty-like (superlative)