Culpable

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  • adjective. Deserving of blame or censure; blameworthy.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Deserving censure; blamable; blameworthy: said of persons or their conduct.
  • Guilty.
  • noun. A culprit.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral; criminal.
  • adjective. Guilty.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. meriting condemnation, censure or blame, especially as something wrong, harmful or injurious; blameworthy
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious
    • Word Usage
    "Remember, there are also specific child abuse laws that many states have that go beyond intentional crimes that can make you criminally responsible for what they call culpable neglect."
    cross-reference
    culpable homicide  
    Equivalent
    guilty  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    blamable  censurable  deplorable  dishonourable  excusable  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    accusable  amiss  arraignable  at fault  blamable  
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