Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Deserving of blame.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Meriting blame; reprehensible; faulty; guilty; criminal: as, “blameful thinges,”
- Faultfinding; blaming: as, a blameful look or word.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Faulty; meriting blame.
- adjective Attributing blame or fault; implying or conveying censure; faultfinding; censorious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
blameworthy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word blameful.
Examples
-
Commendable in every way, blameful in none, Finan died as he had lived, true in every smallest way to the traditions of Iona and the holy men from whom he proceeded.
From the Mail John 2009
-
Commendable in every way, blameful in none, Finan died as he had lived, true in every smallest way to the traditions of Iona and the holy men from whom he proceeded.
Tuesday 17 February -- Aimless Rambling and Some Feast Days John 2009
-
The prospect of defeat will make it vicious and blameful.
-
Be discerning, not blameful or judgmental when choosing to withdraw from or set a boundary in a relationship.
Christine Hassler: How To Spring Clean Your Relationships, PART 2 2009
-
Why the gluttony for shameful, blameful punishment?
Tengu, Santa Monica - Drinking Poison Straight from the Devil's Goblet 2007
-
We suspect these Administration officials and we believe they are blameful even though the government has so far failed to charge them with any crime.
Think Progress » Morris: Libby Indictment Implicates Cheney 2005
-
Without being blameful at all, the student asked for guidance on my assignment so s/he'd do better.
Archive 2007-11-01 Bardiac 2007
-
Without being blameful at all, the student asked for guidance on my assignment so s/he'd do better.
Every day, I learn something new Bardiac 2007
-
KING: So Judith, based on that, is no one really blameful?
-
He had known about it, heard the tearful and increasingly blameful bulletins from Sadie in letters and visits.
Country of the Blind Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1997
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.