Definition of culpable
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Examples of culpable in a Sentence
They held her culpable for the accident.
He's more culpable than the others because he's old enough to know better.
Recent Examples of culpable from the Web
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The proposition was that the West should accept blame, and so should the sometimes culpable Islamic world.
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Professionalism dictated that Montero, as culpable as Arrieta in being one of the easiest batteries in baseball to run on, deal with the issue behind closed doors.
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Consciously or subconsciously, educators and legal authorities may view black girls as more culpable for their actions and therefore be more inclined to punish them severely.
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The EPA established the neighborhood as a Superfund site, a class of highly polluted areas where contributions from culpable polluters and the government pay for cleanup.
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Because by erasing Edwina (a mixed-race, whitepassing teacher) and Mattie (a house slave), Coppola opts to—intended or not—evade the responsibility of showing how white women were just as culpable in slavery as their male counterparts.
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As for our political leaders, too many respond by casting our regional partners as culpable.
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The defense maintains that Castile was high at the time of the incident and was therefore culpable in his death.
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Brickwood, the attorney for Redding’s Police Department, said the officers are not culpable in Robinson’s death.
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Origin and Etymology of culpable
Middle English coupable, from Anglo-French cupable, culpable, from Latin culpabilis, from culpare to blame, from culpa guilt
Synonym Discussion of culpable
CULPABLE Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of culpable for English Language Learners
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: deserving blame : guilty of doing something wrong
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