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culpable

/ˈkʌlpəbəl/

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What does culpable mean?

adjective

  1. Meriting condemnation, censure or blame, especially as something wrong, harmful or injurious; blameworthy, guilty.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈkʌlpəbəl/

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These gifts of a world to civilization are such augmentations of light, that all resistance in that case is culpable.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135
He did this clearly because he did not want to confess a culpable relation to public opinion, especially to his wife.
Hans GrossCriminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and StudentsTranslated by Horace Meyer KallenProject Gutenberg ebook #1320
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To what culpable negligence was it due that such a dire calamity was not foreseen, and at least partially warded off?
John FiskeThe Unseen World, and Other EssaysProject Gutenberg ebook #1486
It is a culpable practice of either a mother or nurse to leave external applications within the reach of a child.
Pye Henry ChavasseAdvice to a Mother on the Management of Her ChildrenProject Gutenberg ebook #6595
Brignatelli mentions the case of a woman who, in culpable practices, introduced the stalk of a reed into her uterus.
George M. (George Milbrey) Gould; Walter L. (Walter Lytle) PyleAnomalies and Curiosities of MedicineProject Gutenberg ebook #747