guilty-like

English

Adverb

guilty-like (comparative more guilty-like, superlative most guilty-like)

1. Alternative form of guiltylike
   • 1871, Mayne Reid, The hunters' feast; or, Conversations around the camp-fire:

     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.

   • 2014, Lauren Layne, Isn't She Lovely:

     He's slowly shifting away from me, guilty-like.

   • 2016, Caesar Campbell, The Outlaw and the Hitman:

     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.

Adjective

guilty-like (comparative more guilty-like, superlative most guilty-like)

1. Alternative form of guiltylike
   • 2012, Corey McFadden, Dark Moon:

     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.

   • 2014, Abbie Williams ·, Heart of a Dove:

     It puts me in a right terrible frame of mind, so guilty-like.

   • 2015, Cora L. Hairston, Hello World, Here Comes Claraby Rose:

     "Now Elsie, don' go feeling guilty-like now,” Thea-Thea said.

   • 2017, Alice Childress, Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life:

     To tell the truth, I felt kind of guilty-like. . . . You know, havin' such a whee of a good time. . . . It just didn't seem possible that we could be helpin' anybody when you enjoyin' yourself as much as that. . . .

   • 2022, George Fenn, The Vast Abyss:

     "Oh, my dear, my dear, I'm afraid not, or else your face wouldn't be so dreadfully red and guilty-like, and I'm sure as your uncle thinks you broke it.”