feel guilty

Frequency: 8.525.1 per million words

Used to describe the internal feeling of having done something wrong.

guiltyVERB + guilty

Categories:

feel

Examples (10)

  • I feel very guilty about leaving her.
  • I feel almost guilty that so many good things are happening to us.
  • She felt guilty for eating the last piece of cake.
  • Do you ever feel guilty about not calling your parents more often?
  • He started to feel terribly guilty after lying to his best friend.
  • You shouldn't feel guilty for taking a day off when you're sick.
  • Lately, I've been feeling guilty about how little I've been exercising.
  • The manager felt guilty for having to lay off some of his team members.
  • There's no reason to feel guilty; it was an accident.
  • Even though everyone said it wasn't his fault, he couldn't help but feel guilty.