Usually means: Feeling remorse for doing wrong.
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  1. guilty conscience: Merriam-Webster
  2. guilty conscience: Collins English Dictionary
  3. guilty conscience: Vocabulary.com
  4. guilty conscience: Wiktionary
  5. guilty conscience: Dictionary.com
  6. Guilty Conscience (album), Guilty Conscience (film), Guilty Conscience (song), Guilty Conscience, Guilty conscience: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. guilty conscience: Rhymezone
  8. guilty conscience: FreeDictionary.org
  9. guilty conscience: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. guilty conscience: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. guilty conscience: Encyclopedia

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  1. guilty conscience: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (guilty conscience)

▸ noun:  A feeling of guiltiness, as if one has done something wrong.

Similar:
guilt trip, guilt, guilt feelings, guilt complex, pang of conscience, self-guilt, remorse, misguilt, shame, gaingiving, more...

Opposite:
clear conscience, innocence, absolution

Phrases:
having a guilty conscience, more...

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Similar:
guilt trip, guilt, guilt feelings, guilt complex, pang of conscience, self-guilt, remorse, misguilt, shame, gaingiving, more...

Opposite:
clear conscience, innocence, absolution

Phrases:
having a guilty conscience, more...



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