guilty as sin
Totally deserving blame
Guilty as sin means unquestionably guilty, guilty beyond any doubt.
The phrase uses sin as the ultimate standard of guilt—nothing could be more clearly wrong.
It emphasizes certainty rather than degree: The evidence proved he was guilty as sin.
Sometimes used for minor transgressions with ironic effect: I ate the last cookie and felt guilty as sin.
- culpableDeserving of blame
- blameworthyDeserving of censure
- in the wrongResponsible for a mistake
- incriminatedShown involvement in wrongdoing
- red-handedCaught mid-crime
condemned · convicted · verdict · bloodstained · judge · jury · wicked · immoral · ashamed · remorseful · bad apple · open-and-shut · beyond reasonable doubt · smoking gun · caught red-handed · caught in the act · dead to rights · liable
guilty as sininnocent as a lamb
Utterly free from wrongdoing
pure as the driven snow · innocent · blameless · squeaky clean · guiltless
guilty as sinpure as the driven snow
Completely virtuous and uncorrupted
innocent as a lamb · saintly · virtuous · righteous · beyond reproach
guilty, guilt, guiltless, guiltily, guiltiness, sins, sinful, sinfully, sinner