INCULPABLE Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

inculpable

adjective

(ˌ)in-ˈkəl-pə-bəl

as in innocent

free from guilt or blame you may not have started the ugly rumor, but you helped to spread it, so you're hardly inculpable

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Recent Examples of inculpable The Iceberg on the Sinking of the Titanic The dumb amount of doors this inculpable hunk of ice has opened. —

Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 11 Feb. 2025 Rats are reviled but resilient, dangerous but inculpable. —

Oliver Whang, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2023

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Adjective

When a strange man lurks around the school asking supposedly innocent questions and the principal receives a severed human finger in the mail, the community is in an uproar.

— Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 19 Mar. 2026
His huddles at times resemble a family Sunday supper after the conversation turns to politics – everyone yelling, nobody listening, Izzo’s face reddening and a whiteboard left broken, the innocent victim of all the arguing (though they are rumored to be pre-cut to avoid splintering).

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 19 Mar. 2026