Example Sentences

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Ferrier had previously pled guilty to culpably and recklessly exposing the public to the virus.

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2022

“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

The school from its beginning has maintained and made prominent one feature so culpably neglected, and even opposed by most schools for girls.

From Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College by Smith, William Robert Lee