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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

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