Culpable
['kʌlpəb(ə)l] or ['kʌlpəbl]
Definition
(a.) Deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral; criminal.
(a.) Guilty; as, culpable of a crime.
Editor: Louise
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Blamable, censurable, reprehensible, faulty, blameworthy.
Editor: Lora
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Blamable, blameworthy, censurable, guilty
ANT:Blameless, innocent, excusable, laudable, praisworthy
Edited by Carmella
Definition
adj. faulty: criminal.—ns. Culpabil′ity Cul′pableness liability to blame.—adv. Cul′pably.—adj. Cul′patory expressive of blame.
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Examples
- Then I should have been culpable indeed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It is most culpable. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The Wilmington expedition has proven a gross and culpable failure. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A young man for whom two such elders had devoted themselves would indeed be culpable if he threw himself away and made their sacrifices vain. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- For my part, there was only one plan to be pursued; I must expiate my culpable vehemence, or I must not sleep that night. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Even more culpable in my opinion, your Grace, is your attitude towards your younger son. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Brooke was really culpable; he ought to have hindered it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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