inculpable
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- inculpability noun
- inculpableness noun
- inculpably adverb
Etymology
Origin of inculpable
From the Late Latin word inculpābilis, dating back to 1485–95. See in- 3, culpable
Example Sentences
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Rats are reviled but resilient, dangerous but inculpable.
From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2023
Eventually, the taut, beach-set crime tale devolves into an epic Greek tragedy with no one escaping unscathed or inculpable.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2015
If they are in good faith, they are indeed still within the Church in the sense that they are of good conscience and subjectively inculpable before God, even in the eyes of the Church.
From Time Magazine Archive
As you would have no power to give such an order, I could not be inculpable in obeying, with my eyes open to the fatal consequences that would attend it.
From Red Eagle and the Wars With the Creek Indians of Alabama. by Eggleston, George Cary
He confessed to them with noble frankness, that he was not altogether inculpable for its misfortunes.
From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron
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