guilty

contrition

Remorseful state over misdeeds

• regretSorrow over past actions
• repentanceRemorseful rejection of past wrongs
• penitenceRemorse for misdeeds

compunction · self-reproach · pangs · atonement · confession · amends · apology · sorrow · redemption · absolution

blameworthy

Deserving of censure

• at faultDeserving blame
• responsibleObligated to answer for actions
• liableLegally responsible for something

accountable · answerable · implicated · complicit · incriminated · indictable · censurable · reprehensible · delinquent · errant

verdict

Official court decision

• convictionFirmly held belief
• pleaFormal request or defense
• defendantParty facing charges

trial · jury · sentence · acquittal · prosecution · indictment · arraignment · testimony · evidence · felony

conscience

Internal moral sense

• weightMeasure of heaviness
• hauntedOccupied by ghosts
• tormentedSubjected to severe distress

plagued · troubled · heavyhearted · consumed · nagging · gnawing · unresolved · suppressed · lingering · inescapable

indulgence

Yielding to desire

• secretConcealed information
• forbiddenNot allowed
• shamelessLacking moral embarrassment

enjoyment · vice · temptation · decadent · sinful · treat · splurge · binge · craving · weakness

embarrassed

Self-consciously uncomfortable

• shamefacedShowing visible embarrassment
• sheepishEmbarrassed and timid
• mortifiedIntensely embarrassed

humiliated · chagrined · abashed · red-faced · hangdog · self-conscious · crestfallen · apologetic · disgraced · conscience-stricken

• moodshappy, sad, angry, anxious, excited
• courtroomjudge, jury, oath taking, lawyer, bench
• courtroom expressionsobjection, sustained, overruled, all rise, I object
• criminal justicearrest, jail, court, prison, crime
• criminal trialarraignment, defense attorney, courtroom, criminal trial, prosecutor
• guiltremorseful, contrition, remorse, culpability, mea culpa