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BLAMABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blamable mean? 

BLAMABLE (adjective)
  The adjective BLAMABLE has 1 sense:

1. deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injuriousplay

  Familiarity information: BLAMABLE used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BLAMABLE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious

Synonyms:

blamable; blameable; blameful; blameworthy; censurable; culpable

Context example:

culpable negligence

Similar:

guilty (responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act)

Derivation:

blame (attribute responsibility to)

blame (put or pin the blame on)


 Context examples 


He had been blamable, highly blamable, in remaining at Norland after he first felt her influence over him to be more than it ought to be.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

During these last days I have been occupied in examining my past conduct; nor do I find it blamable.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

You are very wrong, Mr. Willoughby, very blamable, said Elinor, while her voice, in spite of herself, betrayed her compassionate emotion; you ought not to speak in this way, either of Mrs. Willoughby or my sister.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)



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