as in guilty
deserving reproach or blame
are you any less culpable for murder if you acted in the heat of passion?
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Recent Examples of culpable
Two of the men have co-defendants who are the more culpable killers, who are not being executed.
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Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
Director of football Jon Rudkin is the figure many protesters see as the most culpable for Leicester’s decline.
—Rob Tanner, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2025
But in Friday’s season finale, Coop is able to not only acquit himself of murder and find the real culpable party, but is also given a chance to rejoin the professional ranks that had previously turned their backs on him.
—Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 30 May 2025
The Framers understood the danger of a despotic regime and regarded the criminal jury trial as a key procedural safeguard to help ensure that only those acts and individuals society deemed truly culpable result in criminal punishment.
—Mike Fox, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
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Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
Director of football Jon Rudkin is the figure many protesters see as the most culpable for Leicester’s decline.
—Rob Tanner, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2025
But in Friday’s season finale, Coop is able to not only acquit himself of murder and find the real culpable party, but is also given a chance to rejoin the professional ranks that had previously turned their backs on him.
—Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 30 May 2025
The Framers understood the danger of a despotic regime and regarded the criminal jury trial as a key procedural safeguard to help ensure that only those acts and individuals society deemed truly culpable result in criminal punishment.
—Mike Fox, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for culpable
Adjective
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In 2023, Thomas Martens pleaded guilty to beating Corbett to death with a bat and Molly Martens pleaded no contest, prompting their respective releases from prison in 2024.—
Audrey Conklin,
FOXNews.com,
6 July 2025
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Just when the families thought the ordeal over, Judge Richard Baumgartner, who'd handled all four state cases, pleaded guilty to official misconduct for buying prescription pills from a probationer in 2011.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
The Tennessean,
6 July 2025
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His Stoic Challenge framework invites you to see a setback not as something terrible, blameworthy or unfair but instead as a test of your ingenuity and resilience.—
Hanna Hart,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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But Miss Manners acknowledges that there is also the less blameworthy impulse to offer comfort — not just sympathy — when there is no real comfort to be offered.—
Judith Martin,
The Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2025
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“Culpable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/culpable. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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