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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Responsible for doing wrong or causing undesirable effects; deserving blame.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Deserving blame; censurable; culpable; reprehensible.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Deserving blame; culpable; reprehensible.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Deserving blame or censure; reprehensible.

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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blame +‎ -worthy

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