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
Over the course of five weeks, jurors heard from therapists, engineers, tech executives including Zuckerberg, and the plaintiff herself about just how culpable big tech companies should be for contributing to KGM's mental health struggles.
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Bobby Allyn, NPR, 25 Mar. 2026
Their problems are myriad and appear contagious, with just about every player culpable recently.
—Chris Waugh, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2026
The person with knowledge of the situation said Scavino was not responsible for the post but did not identify the culpable individual.
—Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 6 Feb. 2026
Bessent also refused to retract his comments suggesting Alex Pretti, the ICU nurse killed by federal law enforcement in Minneapolis, was culpable in his own death by being armed.
—Fritz Farrow, ABC News, 5 Feb. 2026
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Bobby Allyn, NPR, 25 Mar. 2026
Their problems are myriad and appear contagious, with just about every player culpable recently.
—Chris Waugh, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2026
The person with knowledge of the situation said Scavino was not responsible for the post but did not identify the culpable individual.
—Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 6 Feb. 2026
Bessent also refused to retract his comments suggesting Alex Pretti, the ICU nurse killed by federal law enforcement in Minneapolis, was culpable in his own death by being armed.
—Fritz Farrow, ABC News, 5 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for culpable
Adjective
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The records pulled back a curtain on favor-trading and frank communications in a chummy elite that looked past Epstein's 2008 guilty plea to solicitating prostitution from an underage girl in Florida.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 Apr. 2026
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Prisoners who are guilty of various violent crimes were not eligible, according to the embassy.—
Joe Walsh,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Extreme cold made the O-rings fail, but NASA’s culture was just as blameworthy and needed a retrofit more urgently than any piece of shuttle hardware.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
28 Jan. 2026
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As the shutdown goes on, moreover, the polling on which side is more to blame seems to be gradually shifting toward Democrats as the more blameworthy side.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Culpable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/culpable. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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