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单词 blameworthy
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Definition of blameworthy in English:

blameworthy

adjective ˈbleɪmwəːðiˈbleɪmˌwərði
  • Responsible for wrongdoing and deserving of censure or blame.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's true that there is no simple chain of blameworthy actions which led to this deterioration.
    • The question is: who were more blameworthy, those who enacted evil out of blind conviction or those who betrayed intellectual ideals?
    • If criminals under a particular age are less blameworthy than other criminals it might seem to follow that we should spare such criminals the harshest sentence.
    • The death penalty is ostensibly reserved for the most blameworthy criminals.
    • The newspaper casts both political parties as equally blameworthy.
    • The huge number of people who ignore traffic regulations suggests that the system is as blameworthy as the motorist.
    • She then goes on to say that there is absolutely no excuse for this ignorance concerning punctuation; even the much favoured scapegoat, the U.S., is not considered blameworthy.
    • The rule is counterintuitive - by comparison, most people feel that repeating gossip is less blameworthy than initiating it - but it is the law.
    • There are cases in which someone knowingly performs a corrupt action but is, say, coerced into so doing, and is therefore not blameworthy.
    • A much larger issue is whether people and companies who disclose vulnerabilities are blameworthy when hackers write exploits that target that vulnerability.
    • The investigator found that the council was not blameworthy of doing anything wrong in the circumstances.
    • He says he thinks that the original authors are just as blameworthy as the spreaders.
    • It is true that accomplices are normally less blameworthy than principals and therefore deserve less severe sentences.
    • But naivety - especially willed naivety - is certainly blameworthy if one ought to know better.
    • Any behaviour which causes harm to oneself and others could be called blameworthy while any behaviour that causes no harm could be called praiseworthy.
    • He sighed, and somehow she felt deeply blameworthy.
    • This requires the existence of a just culture, one possessing a collective understanding of where the line should be drawn between blameless and blameworthy actions.
    • Decisions are often based not on general concepts of blameworthy or culpable conduct, but on the precise interpretation of technical terms within the act.
    • His aggressive pleasure was disconcerting, though hardly blameworthy given the open-ended terms of the experiment.
    • In other words, it's a way of blaming the victim even though the victim has not done anything blameworthy.
    Synonyms
    culpable, reprehensible, indefensible, inexcusable, guilty, criminal, delinquent, sinful, wicked, wrong, evil, shameful, discreditable
    to blame, at fault, blameable, condemnable, censurable, reproachable, responsible, answerable, offending, erring, errant, in the wrong
    rare reprovable

Derivatives

  • blameworthiness

  • noun
    • The investigation is concerned with ‘fault’ which includes blameworthiness as well as causation.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Such a person has surely crossed the threshold of blameworthiness, both in conduct and in the accompanying fault.
      • The criminal law normally reflects culpability and blameworthiness for moral wrong in a general sense.
      • The learned judge failed to consider the blameworthiness of the parties properly or at all.
      • When there are multiple agents associated with a negative event, however, the perceived responsibility and blameworthiness of each agent may be greatly reduced.
 
 

Definition of blameworthy in US English:

blameworthy

adjectiveˈblāmˌwərT͟Hēˈbleɪmˌwərði
  • Responsible for wrongdoing and deserving of censure or blame.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He sighed, and somehow she felt deeply blameworthy.
    • The rule is counterintuitive - by comparison, most people feel that repeating gossip is less blameworthy than initiating it - but it is the law.
    • The newspaper casts both political parties as equally blameworthy.
    • There are cases in which someone knowingly performs a corrupt action but is, say, coerced into so doing, and is therefore not blameworthy.
    • The investigator found that the council was not blameworthy of doing anything wrong in the circumstances.
    • He says he thinks that the original authors are just as blameworthy as the spreaders.
    • This requires the existence of a just culture, one possessing a collective understanding of where the line should be drawn between blameless and blameworthy actions.
    • His aggressive pleasure was disconcerting, though hardly blameworthy given the open-ended terms of the experiment.
    • It is true that accomplices are normally less blameworthy than principals and therefore deserve less severe sentences.
    • In other words, it's a way of blaming the victim even though the victim has not done anything blameworthy.
    • Decisions are often based not on general concepts of blameworthy or culpable conduct, but on the precise interpretation of technical terms within the act.
    • Any behaviour which causes harm to oneself and others could be called blameworthy while any behaviour that causes no harm could be called praiseworthy.
    • But naivety - especially willed naivety - is certainly blameworthy if one ought to know better.
    • If criminals under a particular age are less blameworthy than other criminals it might seem to follow that we should spare such criminals the harshest sentence.
    • She then goes on to say that there is absolutely no excuse for this ignorance concerning punctuation; even the much favoured scapegoat, the U.S., is not considered blameworthy.
    • A much larger issue is whether people and companies who disclose vulnerabilities are blameworthy when hackers write exploits that target that vulnerability.
    • The death penalty is ostensibly reserved for the most blameworthy criminals.
    • The huge number of people who ignore traffic regulations suggests that the system is as blameworthy as the motorist.
    • The question is: who were more blameworthy, those who enacted evil out of blind conviction or those who betrayed intellectual ideals?
    • It's true that there is no simple chain of blameworthy actions which led to this deterioration.
    Synonyms
    culpable, reprehensible, indefensible, inexcusable, guilty, criminal, delinquent, sinful, wicked, wrong, evil, shameful, discreditable
 
 
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