culpableformal

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

be to blame for something
be to blameNo one can decide who is to blame.
be at faultBoth the fans and the players were at fault.
be someone's faultThis is all my fault.
be responsibleWe're still trying to determine who was responsible for the attacks.
the blame lies withSome of the blame lies with investors.
the blame rests withMuch of the blame rests with the government, which has confused people with conflicting health messages

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Guilty
admission of guilt
answerable
blood
convict
convicted
conviction
culpable
guilt
guiltiness
guilty
guilty as chargedidiom
have (someone's) blood on your handsidiom
reconvict
reconviction
responsible
suspect

Examples from literature

But I doubt not you are both blameworthy. 
Imperfection and ignorance are not, in themselves, blameworthy and should never be classified as sins. 
In this there surely was nothing criminal or blameworthy. 
Sin is blameworthy because it is born of the human preference and the human will. 
Yet we can hold a person blameworthy only if in the full possession of his or her faculties. 

Examples of blameworthy

blameworthy
Nothing tells us that practical indifference deserves judicial punishment as distinct from other kinds of social responses to blameworthy conduct.
Second, certain actions may be "supererogator y" (praiseworthy but not obligator y) or "suberogator y" (permitted but blameworthy).
Among youth who did not evaluate the batterer's behavior as blameworthy, behavior problems increased as family violence severity increased.
I have chosen to do that, the doing of which will make me blameworthy.
That is a neutral definition of a high stakes game: as praiseworthy as blameworthy.
Any ethical theory implies that agents who without a good excuse act wrongly are morally blameworthy.
It would often be irresponsible and blameworthy to rely upon guesses about the purport of these reasons.
For example, donating money to a charitable organization is praiseworthy, the pseudoscientific, exaggerated promises of some chiropractors are blameworthy.
It is not clear we can say precisely who acts wrongly or who is blameworthy for the failure to study such treatments.
Failure in this is morally blameworthy; success morally praiseworthy.
In the light of this it might not be surprising if a society chose to eliminate morally blameworthy culpable behavior first.
Emotions can be blameworthy or praiseworthy, and can center on large and small objects.
Of analytic\\ logical necessity, a torturer, qua torturer, would be a blameworthy person doing a bad thing.
And if she doesn't have control over any event, she can't be morally praiseworthy or blameworthy for anything at all.
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