Guilty-like

adj, adv

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Alternative form of guiltylike. alt-of, alternative

    "Nobody looked guilty-like, and Johnny even said he'd checked the bricks special because of what happened to you, and anyway, they was all sure the cart was much further from the rim than the tracks look like now."

Adverb
  1. 1
    Alternative form of guiltylike. alt-of, alternative

    "Once or twice I fancied that I observed a look of still stranger, still wilder expression, when the black ring forms around the eye— when the muscles twitch and quiver along gaunt, famished jaws — when men gaze guilty-like at each other."

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"Once or twice I fancied that I observed a look of still stranger, still wilder expression, when the black ring forms around the eye— when the muscles twitch and quiver along gaunt, famished jaws — when men gaze guilty-like at each other."

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