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CULPABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does culpable mean?
• CULPABLE (adjective)
The adjective CULPABLE has 1 sense:
1. deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious
Familiarity information: CULPABLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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:
culpability; culpableness (a state of guilt)
Context examples
The results of what you have done become in time to you utterly insupportable; you take measures to obtain relief: unusual measures, but neither unlawful nor culpable.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Even more culpable in my opinion, your Grace, is your attitude towards your younger son.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He felt that he ought not to have allowed the marriage; that his daughter's sentiments had been sufficiently known to him to render him culpable in authorising it; that in so doing he had sacrificed the right to the expedient, and been governed by motives of selfishness and worldly wisdom.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
It is most culpable.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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