as in guilty
deserving reproach or blame
an honest mistake is hardly a blamable offense
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blamable
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,
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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
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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One sign of the production’s Brechtian nature is the way the structural forces at work in society are revealed to be more culpable than any individual character.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
20 June 2025
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The majority sees no problem in executing someone whose co-defendant might have been more culpable but was smart enough to cop a deal to elude the death penalty.—
Orlando Sentinel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
10 June 2025
Adjective
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Their reprehensible posts and videos will always be there, thanks to screenshots, and searchable by, say, potential future employers, neighbors and friends.—
Boston Herald editorial staff,
Boston Herald,
8 July 2025
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Israel’s bombing of Evin lays bare what happens when two reprehensible systems collide: one that cages the innocent, and another that claims to liberate them with bombs.—
Siamak Namazi,
Time,
25 June 2025
Adjective
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These raids are reckless and sow more chaos and division in our city.—
Anna Commander
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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Two other Democrats, however, have denounced the strikes as a reckless escalation.—
Lila Hempel-Edgers,
Charlotte Observer,
27 June 2025
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“Blamable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blamable. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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