culpable
deserving blame or censure; blameworthy.
Origin of culpable
1Other words for culpable
Other words from culpable
- cul·pa·bil·i·ty, cul·pa·ble·ness, noun
- cul·pa·bly, adverb
- non·cul·pa·ble, adjective
- non·cul·pa·ble·ness, noun
- non·cul·pa·bly, adverb
- un·cul·pa·ble, adjective
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How to use culpable in a sentence
On Monday, he recast the accusation to say it was specific individuals posting dangerous information who are culpable.
“Don’t You Work With Old People?”: Many Elder-Care Workers Still Refuse to Get COVID-19 Vaccine | by Jenny Deam, Ryan Gabrielson and Bianca Fortis | July 23, 2021 | ProPublicaI think people who are not on their radar, or considered low level now, will be found more culpable, and those higher-level people will get significant sentences.
Hundreds of people stormed the Capitol. Most won’t face hefty prison terms, legal experts say. | Tom Jackman, Spencer Hsu | May 13, 2021 | Washington PostAs its database further grows, however, we could see a new GWAS landscape, powered by millions of data points, that hunts down culpable genes at breakneck speed—informing treatment decisions to save lives.
23andMe’s Huge Covid-19 Study Draws Links Between the Virus and Our Genetics | Shelly Fan | May 4, 2021 | Singularity HubMedia houses that rolled over for India’s rulers are equally culpable.
It Isn't Just Modi. India’s Compliant Media Must Also Take Responsibility for the COVID-19 Crisis | Debasish Roy Chowdhury | May 3, 2021 | TimeNBC 7 San Diego seemed to provide one of the most significant revelations last week that Gloria was culpable not just of approving it and enthusiastically supporting it but of perhaps fraudulently pushing it through approval.
Morning Report: Oceanside Reboots Top Cop Search | Voice of San Diego | September 14, 2020 | Voice of San Diego
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.
Why Was Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Flying Through a War Zone? | Clive Irving | July 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI viewed the Zooey character as the colder one, and more culpable.
Marc Webb Takes Us Inside ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ and Discusses His Rise to the A-List | Marlow Stern | March 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut looking over decades of celebrity shots provokes a startling revelation: we're culpable too.
Exposed: Paparazzi vs. the Stars Over the Past 50 Years | Sarah Moroz | February 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMoreover, American political figures who have proudly associated with The Family and with Rick Warren are culpable as well.
Hillary, ‘The Family,’ and Uganda’s Anti-Gay Christian Mafia | Sally Kohn | February 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMore foolish, more culpable weakness was never shown than in thus yielding to these schemes.
Elster's Folly | Mrs. Henry WoodAnd if justice be not done, they are also culpable;—because of the want of such a power justice is not to be undone.
The Ordinance of Covenanting | John CunninghamA sovereign could not, without a culpable sacrifice of his personal dignity, persist longer in such a contest.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayThey relate to the culpable remissness of these Knoxville leaders in failing to volunteer in the cause of the Confederacy.
Portrait and Biography of Parson Brownlow, The Tennessee Patriot | William Gannaway BrownlowThe persons really culpable were those who sent them out without a proper staff, and without the smallest foresight.
The British Expedition to the Crimea | William Howard Russell
British Dictionary definitions for culpable
/ (ˈkʌlpəbəl) /
deserving censure; blameworthy
Origin of culpable
1Derived forms of culpable
- culpability or culpableness, noun
- culpably, adverb
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