culpable

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She was reduced to the last degree of poverty; her friends held themselves aloof, disgusted at what they termed her culpable weakness; she and her children suffered from cold and hunger; and during her subsequent illness she and they must have starved and frozen but for the public charities, that would not let anyone in our midst perish from want of necessary food and fuel.

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  1. adjective Deserving of blame or censure as being wrong, evil, improper, or injurious. See Synonyms at blameworthy.

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  • The Father and Daughter both culpable, both wretched, and both penitent, divide between them our pity and our sorrow. —  Life Of Johnson
  • This, however, is not culpable, and it has even been unavoidable. —  A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln
  • She was reduced to the last degree of poverty; her friends held themselves aloof, disgusted at what they termed her culpable weakness; she and her children suffered from cold and hunger; and during her subsequent illness she and they must have starved and frozen but for the public charities, that would not let anyone in our midst perish from want of necessary food and fuel. —  Ishmael In the Depths
  • I reproached myself bitterly for what I called a culpable weakness; but this weakness returned upon me whenever the critical moment approached, and I never found courage to depart. —  Mathilda
  • Grosvenor headed for Captain Leeth's quarters. —  The Voyage of the Space Beagle
 

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  1. Middle English coupable, from Old French, from Latin culpābilis, from culpāre, to blame, from culpa, fault.

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  1. from Middle English culpable, coulpable, coupable, from Old French culpable, colpable, coupable, French coupable = Provencal colpable = Spanish culpable = Portuguese culpavel = Italian colpabile, from Latin culpabilis, blameworthy, from culpare, blame, condemn, from culpa, fault, crime, mistake. See culpe.
 

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