culpably

culpable | American Dictionary

culpable
adjective
 fmlus/ˈkʌl·pə·bəl/
deserving to be blamed or considered responsible for something bad:
The landowner could be proved culpable for starting the fire.

culpability

noun[ U ]us/ˌkʌl·pəˈbɪl·ɪ·t̬i/
He strongly denies any culpability in the tragedy.

Examples of culpable

culpable
It is hard to imagine that this event could have occurred without morally culpable choices in its history.
If there are particular things that every responsible physician should know in order to effectively respond during disasters, then continuing in ignorance is culpable.
Citizens might doubt that behavior that they believe is innocent would be allowed or would be found culpable and deserving of punishment.
Nevertheless, the fair-opportunity branch of the choice theory also fails as a theory of the culpable mind.
Parents who lack the resources to move their families surely are not culpable for continuing to live in crime-ridden or politically volatile areas.
Then it seems that the teller is culpable for complying with the threat.
Punishment is deserved for the culpable unjust harm done on others.
That is to say, even well-devised course modules might be held culpable for routine difficulties in teachers' first years.
In my view, psychopaths at this extreme would not be morally culpable for their unlawful behavior.
But then the conditions required for culpable conduct are, arguably, satisfied in these cases.
An incapacity to know right from wrong seems to make a culpable choice impossible rather than simply absent, as it does for the infant.
On this view, culpable behavior that reasonably induces reliance gives rise to what the law describes as an implied agreement.
This influenced ideas about who was culpable in adulterous relationships.
How prominent were the clergy in this change and, in the eyes of the poor, how culpable?
This species of the mindas-enclosure model is expressed chiefly in its morally culpable failure.
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