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blameworthy, a.|ˈbleɪmwɜːðɪ|
Worthy or deserving of blame, culpable.
1387Trevisa Higden vi. xxvii, Bote he was i-founde blameworþy in his answere. c1440Promp. Parv. 38 Blame⁓worthy, culpabilis. 1533More Apol. xi. Wks. 869/2, I am not greatlye blame woorthye therein. 1699Burnet 39 Art. xvii. (1700) 167 All men are so far free as to be praise-worthy or blame-worthy for the Good or Evil that they do. 1876J. Grote Eth. Fragm. iii. 58 Every action which is wrong or blameworthy.
Hence ˈblameworthiness.
1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) 15 The blame-worthinesse is, that to heare them, he rather goes to solitarinesse. 1754Edwards Freed. Will iv. xiii. (1762) 282 The nature of Blame-worthiness or Ill-desert. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. 1355 Blame I can bear, though not blameworthiness. |