culpability

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cul·pa·ble

(kŭl′pə-bəl)

adj.

Deserving of blame or censure; blameworthy: "Rajiv's getting remarried without the divorce papers meant that he was equally culpable and that no one would be taking anyone to court" (Samrat Upadhyay).

[Middle English coupable, from Old French, from Latin culpābilis, from culpāre, to blame, from culpa, fault.]

cul′pa·bil′i·ty n.

cul′pa·bly adv.

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culpability

1. the condition of blameworthiness, criminality, censurability.
2. Obsolete, guilt. — culpable, adj.

culpability

noun blame, responsibility, fault, liability, accountability He added there was clear culpability on the part of the government.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

culpability

noun

Responsibility for an error or crime:

blame, fault, guilt, onus.

Translations

لَوْم، استِحقاقيّة اللوْم

provinění

skyldighedstrafansvarlighed

Sträflichkeit

culpabilité

büntethetõség

saknæmi, sekt

previnenie

culpability

[ˌkʌlpəˈbɪlɪtɪ] N (frm) → culpabilidad f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

culpability

[ˌkʌlpəˈbɪlɪti] n (= guilt) → culpabilité f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

culpability

n (form) → Schuld f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

culpable

(ˈkalpəbl) adjective

deserving blame; guilty. She was the one who committed the crime but he was culpable also.

ˌculpaˈbility noun

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Any culpability which had been imputed to him for negligence and irregularity was removed by the resolution.

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Stephen Guest had not married her; which came to the same thing, so far as her culpability was concerned.

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No blame attached to me: I am as free from culpability as any one of you three.

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As if the estrangement between them had come of any culpability of hers.

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Bulstrode, which on the one hand would have inclined her to desire that the mildest view of his character should be the true one, but on the other, made her the more afraid of seeming to palliate his culpability. Again, the late alliance of her family with the Tollers had brought her in connection with the best circle, which gratified her in every direction except in the inclination to those serious views which she believed to be the best in another sense.

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those with inconclusive evidence of culpability and were given the benefit of the doubt because of the guiding principles of the Board that it is better for many criminals to go free than to punish one innocent candidate.

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