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culpable
[ kuhl-puh-buhl ]
culpable
/ ˈkʌlpəbəl /
adjective
- deserving censure; blameworthy
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Derived Forms
- ˈculpably, adverb
- ˌculpaˈbility, noun
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Other Words From
- culpa·bili·ty culpa·ble·ness noun
- culpa·bly adverb
- non·culpa·ble adjective
- non·culpa·ble·ness noun
- non·culpa·bly adverb
- un·culpa·ble adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of culpable1
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Example Sentences
How culpable are sites like Facebook, Google, and Apple in aiding potential spying, and the loss of privacy?
Russia should be regarded as culpable if separatists brought down this plane.
I viewed the Zooey character as the colder one, and more culpable.
But looking over decades of celebrity shots provokes a startling revelation: we're culpable too.
Moreover, American political figures who have proudly associated with The Family and with Rick Warren are culpable as well.
More foolish, more culpable weakness was never shown than in thus yielding to these schemes.
And if justice be not done, they are also culpable;—because of the want of such a power justice is not to be undone.
A sovereign could not, without a culpable sacrifice of his personal dignity, persist longer in such a contest.
They relate to the culpable remissness of these Knoxville leaders in failing to volunteer in the cause of the Confederacy.
The persons really culpable were those who sent them out without a proper staff, and without the smallest foresight.
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