BLAMED Synonyms: 83 Similar and Opposite Words

blamed

verb

past tense of blame

as in criticized

to express one's unfavorable opinion of the worth or quality of more concerned with pleasing audiences, the playwright has always claimed to be indifferent to whether critics praise his comedies or blame them without mercy

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Recent Examples of blamed In March 2026, a detainee escaped from the facility, which ICE officials blamed on the contractors' inability to track people housed there. —

Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 9 June 2026 Its satellites have been blamed for interfering with astronomical observations and posing an ever-increasing risk of space collisions. —

Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026 Investigators blamed the Ukrainian intelligence services for the killing. —

David Brennan, ABC News, 9 June 2026 Delrahim, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times earlier this month, also accused people of campaigning against the Paramount-WBD merger and blamed antisemitism without further explanation. —

Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 9 June 2026 Iran blamed the United States for the escalation. —

Jon Gambrell, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2026 The hospital blamed an issue with its billing system that left it strapped for cash. —

CBS News, 8 June 2026 Mayor Quinton Lucas blamed the promoters and owners of an unlicensed after-hours club for a mass shooting that injured nine people early Saturday in Kansas City. —

Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 8 June 2026 House Speaker Daniel Perez, a Miami Republican, blamed DeSantis for the short timeline. —

Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 2 June 2026

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Advocates have long criticized the conditions at the Aurora facility, and those complaints — alongside concerns that more facilities could open in the state — helped drive HB 1276’s contents.

— Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 9 June 2026
Bass has called for hiring more officers and defending her Inside Safe homelessness program, while Raman has criticized the cost of police raises, called for broader public-safety responses and argued that the city needs a more accountable and cost-effective homelessness system.

— Teresa Liu, Daily News, 9 June 2026