guiltily

1. 1.

   in the manner of someone who has committed an offense

   “she blushed guiltily as she spoke”

Questions about guiltily

What does guiltily mean?

guiltily means "in the manner of someone who has committed an offense".

How many syllables are in guiltily?

guiltily has 4 syllables and divides as gu-il-ti-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is guiltily a common word?

guiltily is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.