Example Sentences

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Ms Ferrier has already been ordered to complete a 270-hour community payback order by a court after admitting culpably and recklessly exposing the public "to the risk of infection, illness and death".

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2023

“That she wasn’t culpably negligent and that she didn’t cause the death of Mr. Wright. He caused his death himself.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 28, 2021

Capricious, volatile, egomaniacal and, yes, stagy, he was in the end culpably human.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2021

Schwitzgebel: I’ve defined a jerk as someone who culpably fails to appreciate the intellectual and emotional perspectives of the people around him.

From Scientific American • Jul. 6, 2020

Heavens above! had anyone been more culpably weak, more misguided than she herself?

From Petticoat Rule by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness