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Meaning of guiltylike | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR B2

Definitions

guiltily

informal

Examples

“No, sure, I cannot think it, / That he would steal away so guiltylike, / Seeing you coming.”
“Guiltylike I wail my case, shame of sin doth sting my face, spare me, god, who beg for grace.”
“So I stole away, guiltylike, an' went down an' stood beside the sea.”
“I could tell from the way Katie looked up, sort of guiltylike when I came in, that she and her folks had been talking about Katie's sister, Elsie, who lived in Paris”
“She'd fall into fits of brooding and then jump, guiltylike, when she was roused.”
“That was when Digger kinda hemmed and hawed and scratched his boot soles on the rough ground, and looked at me all guiltylike because he'd forgotten something, and then displayed the dozen cellular phones he'd stashed in his assault pack.”
“Mike glanced away, guiltylike. "I sold her. Lily left, and I just closed all the doors."”
“"I'm fine," he said, and nodded like a marionette, but his eyse were shifting back and forth guiltylike.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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