culpable
adjective
deserving blame or censure; blameworthy.
culpably
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a word derived from
culpable.
Example Sentences
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Prosecutors state the suspended SNP politician culpably and recklessly booked a test for Covid-19, stating in the booking application that she had symptoms of the disease.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 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
Even Joseph Warton and Bowles, affectedly fastidious over-much as both too often are, and culpably prompt to find fault, acknowledge that Pope's versions are blameless.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various
