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
The Framers understood the danger of a despotic regime and regarded the criminal jury trial as a key procedural safeguard to help ensure that only those acts and individuals society deemed truly culpable result in criminal punishment.
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Mike Fox, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
His legal team presented arguments that the more culpable perpetrator received a lesser sentence and that a recent autism diagnosis were mitigating factors worthy of a clemency recommendation.
—James Powel, USA Today, 8 May 2025
After the war, in 1945, around three million Germans, seen as culpable for the war and Nazi crimes, fled or were deported from the area.
—Sara Cincurova, New York Times, 3 May 2025
Prosecutors have launched an investigation into the crash regarding possible charges of manslaughter and culpable disaster.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
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Mike Fox, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
His legal team presented arguments that the more culpable perpetrator received a lesser sentence and that a recent autism diagnosis were mitigating factors worthy of a clemency recommendation.
—James Powel, USA Today, 8 May 2025
After the war, in 1945, around three million Germans, seen as culpable for the war and Nazi crimes, fled or were deported from the area.
—Sara Cincurova, New York Times, 3 May 2025
Prosecutors have launched an investigation into the crash regarding possible charges of manslaughter and culpable disaster.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for culpable
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Weinstein pleaded not guilty to all charges in his retrial; both Haley and Mann testified against him again.—
Michaela Zee,
Variety,
12 June 2025
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Related article Catch up on the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial so far Combs has denied all wrongdoing and has pleaded not guilty to the charges.—
Elizabeth Wagmeister,
CNN Money,
12 June 2025
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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
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“Culpable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/culpable. Accessed 24 Jun. 2025.
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