guilty-like

comparative more guilty-like · superlative most guilty-like

1. alternativeAlternative form of guiltylike.

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

   2014, Lauren Layne, Isn't She Lovely

   2 more examples

   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.

   1871, Mayne Reid, The hunters' feast; or, Conversations around the camp-fire

   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.

   2016, Caesar Campbell, The Outlaw and the Hitman

comparative more guilty-like · superlative most guilty-like

1. alternativeAlternative form of guiltylike.

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

   2014, Abbie Williams ·, Heart of a Dove

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   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.

   2012, Corey McFadden, Dark Moon

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

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

   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. . . .

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

   "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.”

   2022, George Fenn, The Vast Abyss