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culpable
/ˈkʌlpəbəl/
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What does culpable mean?
adjective
- 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.
He did this clearly because he did not want to confess a culpable relation to public opinion, especially to his wife.
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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?
It is a culpable practice of either a mother or nurse to leave external applications within the reach of a child.
Brignatelli mentions the case of a woman who, in culpable practices, introduced the stalk of a reed into her uterus.