Culpable

Word CULPABLE
Character 8
Hyphenation cul pa ble
Pronunciations /ˈkʌlpəbəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Culpable"

What do we mean by culpable?

Deserving of blame or censure; blameworthy. adjective

Deserving censure; blamable; blameworthy: said of persons or their conduct.

Guilty.

A culprit. noun

Deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral; criminal. adjective

Guilty. adjective

Meriting condemnation, censure or blame, especially as something wrong, harmful or injurious; blameworthy adjective

Deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious adjective

Meriting condemnation, censure or blame, especially as something wrong, harmful or injurious; blameworthy.

Deserving blame. Urban Dictionary

The responsibility of a fault or wrong doing (synonym of guilt) Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Culpable

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The word "culpable" in example sentences

Remember, there are also specific child abuse laws that many states have that go beyond intentional crimes that can make you criminally responsible for what they call culpable neglect. ❋ Unknown (2002)

She was reduced to the last degree of poverty; her friends held themselves aloof, disgusted at what they termed her culpable weakness; she and her children suffered from cold and hunger; and during her subsequent illness she and they must have starved and frozen but for the public charities, that would not let anyone in our midst perish from want of necessary food and fuel. ❋ Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1859)

And so the story goes, of all the organizations and institutions that have engaged in culpable activities, one is singled out for punishment by the Federal Government. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To me the only place the Feds are culpable is in the authorization of funds to build up the levees. ❋ Unknown (2005)

During the reign of the late king, the ark had been left in culpable neglect. ❋ Unknown (1871)

If allowing sin to enter creation makes God "culpable" -- well, it can't be said He hasn't suffered for it ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

"If allowing sin to enter creation makes God" culpable "-- well, it can't be said He hasn't suffered for it ..." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Still, though, the head of the investigation said there was no evidence of deliberate distortion or what Lord Butler called culpable negligence. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Added to this culpable failure to take action long ago, I feel bound to say that there is an additional factor behind this tragic debacle, namely a culpable incompetence. ❋ Unknown (1998)

Thus, disease, accident, or unemployment might be due to immorality or intemperance in the more or less distant, past; and what is now classified as culpable inefficiency or shiftlessness might be ultimately traceable to prolonged unemployment. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

She had done a deed which, she understood, the world would blame her for if it knew, would call culpable or foolishly heroic; but she smiled, because she understood also that she had done that which her own conscience and heart approved, and she was content. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

And as no plea of necessity can justify an enlightened man in committing known sin, it follows that all such Southern people are highly culpable, which is utterly inconsistent with the admission that they are pious. ❋ William Andrew (1856)

"culpable" -- well, it can't be said He hasn't suffered for it ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

I was looking at the poster for a while and wondering "wtf?" ... till I saw the 'culpable', and figured it was just a culture faux-pas. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"There's a mishna [in Makkot] that states that anybody who puts a lasting mark on their body is culpable, meaning they've committed a sin," Rabbi Aaron Alexander, Associate Dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at American Jewish University explains. ❋ Danielle Berrin (2010)

A couple of you have made the very legitimate point that murder and homicide are different things, with the latter including manslaughter and other "culpable" events resulting in death. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Those [in the House] of Representatives who are [aware] of wrong doing but do not [report] it are culpable. ❋ Evolved Feminist (2018)

The culpability of what [I had] [done] ❋ Katniss Mellark (2014)

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