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BLAMEABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blameable mean?
• BLAMEABLE (adjective)
The adjective BLAMEABLE has 1 sense:
1. deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious
Familiarity information: BLAMEABLE 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:
blame (attribute responsibility to)
blame (put or pin the blame on)
Context examples
And here I can admit, that my manners to Miss W., in being unpleasant to Miss F., were highly blameable.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
You are resolved to think him blameable, because he took leave of us with less affection than his usual behaviour has shewn.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I, who have valued myself on my abilities! who have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity in useless or blameable mistrust!
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
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