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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a guilt about" is not correct in standard written English.
The correct expression would typically be "guilt about" or "a feeling of guilt about."
Example: "She felt a guilt about not visiting her grandmother more often."
Alternatives: "a sense of guilt regarding" or "a feeling of remorse about."
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You carry a guilt about the Holocaust even though your people, as it were, fought against it.
"There were three types: first, there was guilt about staying alive while others died; second, there was a guilt about the things they failed to do – these people often suffered post-traumatic 'intrusions' as they relived the event again and again; third, there were feelings of guilt about what they did do, such as scrambling over others to escape.
I think he feels a terrible guilt about it; I'm sure there's a guilt about Drake and the way he behaved towards him and perhaps he was quite thoughtless in his treatment of him in sort of investigating the [Rutowski] murders and the Isaac Bloom case.
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"There's been a feeling of insecurity and an unacknowledged guilt about an often shameful history, and that's bred fear and aggression.
Lots of Americans are on a guilt trip about buying trucks.
"There was a guilt factor about the image it would leave in the family.
The focus of the talk was a guilt trip about their church connection.
Like many other children who faced home violence, Natasha had developed a guilt complex about leaving her parents.
Milosz blamed himself for not having been a better parent and described feeling "a terrible guilt about my existence, partly justified, partly pathological".
Yet I felt an uneasy guilt about using a Christian holy place as my un-kosher sanctuary.
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