Definitions
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 orcensure ;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
Etymologies
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Examples
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They agreed that Obama's inability to produce a strong recovery - since Bush, however blameworthy, is not on the ballot - would prove decisive next Tuesday.
HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now w/ Huffington & Matalin , on Scary Midterms, Bill Clinton, Jon Stewart & Keith Richards HuffPost Radio 2010
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The most "blameworthy" party is George W. Bush, and his administration.
Compare And Contrast: Hillary And Obama's Votes On Iraq 2009
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I am not meaning to imply that there was any kind of blameworthy insincerity in this.
Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him Joseph P. Tumulty
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I am not meaning to imply that there was any kind of blameworthy insincerity in this.
Woodrow Wilson as I know Him Tumulty, Joseph P 1921
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The inquiry found Lt.Gen. Awadesh Prakash and Lt.Gen. P.K. Rath 'blameworthy', said an official, not divulging further details.
unknown title 2009
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Nor did they consider whether the alleged activities would in fact be blameworthy.
Eastern Europe 2009
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That such compromises get made is neither remarkable nor blameworthy.
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That such compromises get made is neither remarkable nor blameworthy.
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Oaths are only meaningful, and it is only morally blameworthy to violate them, if they are freely given.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Not the Best Way to Inspire Confidence 2010
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“Calls for violence against homosexuals” would be a sign of extremism, no doubt, but is it equally pernicious to argue that homosexual acts are morally blameworthy?
Britain 2010
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