Definition of blamablenext

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How is the word blamable different from other adjectives like it?

Some common synonyms of blamable are blameworthy, culpable, and guilty. While all these words mean "deserving reproach or punishment," blameworthy and blamable apply to any degree of reprehensibility.

conduct adjudged blameworthy
an accident for which no one is blamable

When could culpable be used to replace blamable?

While the synonyms culpable and blamable are close in meaning, culpable is weaker than guilty and is likely to connote malfeasance or errors of ignorance, omission, or negligence.

culpable neglect

When would guilty be a good substitute for blamable?

The words guilty and blamable are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, guilty implies responsibility for or consciousness of crime, sin, or, at the least, grave error or misdoing.

guilty of a breach of etiquette

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for blamable
Adjective
  • She is charged with murder, manslaughter, assault and criminal possession of a weapon in Vasquez’s death, and was ordered held without bail after pleading not guilty at her arraignment Wednesday in Bronx Criminal Court.
    Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 15 May 2026
  • On May 14, Dana Williamson, a former top aide to Newsom and onetime Becerra political adviser, pleaded guilty in federal court after accepting a plea deal to multiple charges, including committing bank and wire fraud, filing a false tax return, and lying to the FBI.
    James Ward, USA Today, 15 May 2026
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • The brothers both pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice and Alexander also pleaded guilty to culpable homicide.
    Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 3 May 2026
  • Mason Miller is the only reliever not culpable in one of those losses.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The wire fraud charges, FOX 2 Now added, are punishable by up to 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, or both.
    Sean Joseph OutKick, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026
  • Two counts of insurance fraud, second-degree felonies, each carry a 1-15 year sentence, and a third-degree felony forgery charge is punishable by 0-5 years in prison.
    Hannah Schoenbaum, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026
Adjective
  • His poor display of unsportsmanlike conduct was reprehensible.
    Kirk Bohls, Houston Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Prisons are filled with the faithful and the daily news reports are overflowing with reprehensible, criminal, degenerate theists.
    Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • America’s reckless military adventure continues.
    Sudarsan Raghavan, New Yorker, 12 May 2026
  • Tottenham began to tire and Tel was ultimately punished for his reckless boot in his own box.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 11 May 2026
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“Blamable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blamable. Accessed 16 May. 2026.

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