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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  • I confess myself culpable, and the fact of my being ignorant as to which species the bird belonged till I picked it up was no excuse, as I was aware it was a rare one of some kind. —  MY STRANGE PETS AND Other Memories of Country Life
  • Among the most culpable are the publications of the Jewish media. —  Spero News
  • The federal government is culpable, the activists say, because it pays farmers billions in subsidies each year for growing grains and soybeans. —  news | GT | http://www.gadsdentimes.com
  • Equally culpable are the millions of Americans that bought more than they should. —  doggdot.us
  • So much is urged in this apology to justify many actions that have been represented as culpable, and to palliate the rest, that the reader is reconciled for the greater part; and it is made very probable that Clarendon was by personal enmity disposed to think the worst of Greenville, as Greenville was also very willing to think the worst of Clarendon. —  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
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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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