Guilt-ridden
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Having a strong sense of guilt.
Guilty
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A plea by a defendant who does not contest a charge.A verdict of a judge or jury on a defendant judged to have committed a crime.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Responsible for a dishonest act.Judged to have committed a crime.Having a sense of guiltBlameworthy.
Example sentence: There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.