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  • 51culpable — a. Blamable, censurable, reprehensible, faulty, blameworthy, wrong …

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  • 52culpable — adj blameworthy, blamable, censurable, reprehensible, reproachable, reprovable; at fault, guilty, sinful, transgressive, peccant, found wanting …

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  • 53culpable — cul·pa·ble …

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  • 54culpable — adjective Syn: to blame, guilty, at fault, in the wrong, answerable, accountable, responsible Ant: innocent …

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  • 55culpable — UK [ˈkʌlpəb(ə)l] / US adjective formal responsible for doing something bad or illegal …

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  • 56culpable — [ˈkʌlpəb(ə)l] adj formal responsible for doing something bad or illegal …

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  • 57culpable — cul•pa•ble [[t]ˈkʌl pə bəl[/t]] adj. deserving blame or censure • Etymology: 1275–1325; ME < MF < L culpābilis=culpā(re) to hold liable, der. of culpa blame + bilis ble cul pa•bil′i•ty, n. cul′pa•bly, adv …

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  • 58culpable — /ˈkʌlpəbəl / (say kulpuhbuhl) adjective deserving blame or censure; blameworthy. {Latin culpābilis blameworthy; replacing Middle English coupable, from Old French} –culpability /kʌlpəˈbɪləti/ (say kulpuh biluhtee), culpableness, noun –culpably,… …

  • 59culpable —   a. at fault; criminal.    ♦ culpability, n …

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  • 60culpable — Criminal; censurable. Where the term is applied to the omission of a person to preserve the means of enforcing his own rights, censurable is more nearly an equivalent. Waltham Bank v Wright, 90 Mass (8 Allen) 121, 122 …

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