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单词 culpable
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Definition of culpable in English:

culpable

adjective ˈkʌlpəb(ə)lˈkəlpəb(ə)l
  • Deserving blame.

    mercy killings are less culpable than ‘ordinary’ murders
    Example sentencesExamples
    • If they don't, are they culpable for the death and suffering that results?
    • How culpable are they, can they be held responsible and will they pay for their mistake?
    • Now many of us will agree that such a person is culpable and guilty.
    • If we believe that humans are morally culpable for sexual behavior then we must uphold that view.
    • It is difficult to apportion blame since both sides seem to be equally culpable.
    • In public he pleads culpable to his part in that shock result.
    • We should record in particular that we have found no evidence of deliberate distortion or of culpable negligence.
    • Now if that is not a form of culpable negligence, then I do not know what is.
    • The culpable do not break down and confess their sins merely as the result of close questioning.
    • Journalists who had followed the case from start to finish could not agree how culpable she was, how knowingly she lied.
    • Equally culpable are drivers who use the outside lane, despite clear inside lanes, and travel far below the speed limit.
    • It will not please England, though, that two of his wickets, both front-line batsmen, were culpable.
    • And to remain apathetic in the face of such unnecessary suffering renders us all culpable.
    • In fact, yours truly may be even more culpable for, as he and others have repeatedly said, I found the chief.
    • Here, knowledge and intent or culpable negligence would seem to be required for criminal liability.
    • It seems to me in the media, particular in this country in the national media, are so culpable.
    • While you list a number of shops that are failing to provide access to wheelchair users, other businesses are equally culpable.
    • In this, of all ages, we should learn the lesson that to put only a fraction of the potentially culpable in the dock is to invite injustice.
    • But they are both culpable for putting political life on the danger list.
    • The above argument is not a defence of genuine culpable negligence.
    Synonyms
    to blame, guilty, at fault, in the wrong, blameworthy, blameable, censurable, reproachable, reprovable, found wanting
    responsible, answerable, liable, accountable

Derivatives

  • culpably

  • adverbˈkʌlpəbliˈkəlpəbli
    • He added: ‘It is difficult to see how the Crown could argue that they hadn't been culpably negligent if they didn't take steps to prevent the forthcoming prosecution witness from accessing the remote sites.’
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Whether on issues to do with the environment or with the family, with economics or with education, with popular culture or with sex, they were wrong to various degrees - from the mildly wrong-headed to the absolutely and culpably mistaken.
      • Instead of relating to the good human impulse here, registering it and further encouraging it, some have preferred to emphasize that it isn't enough, that someone is culpably remiss, and so forth.
      • The fifth and final hypothesis to be discussed concerns non-institutional agents who culpably perform acts that undermine legitimate institutional processes or purposes.
      • And if it is not intentional it is still culpably reckless.

Origin

Middle English (in the sense 'deserving punishment'): from Old French coupable, culpable, from Latin culpabilis, from culpare 'to blame', from culpa 'fault, blame'.

 
 

Definition of culpable in US English:

culpable

adjectiveˈkəlpəb(ə)lˈkəlpəb(ə)l
  • Deserving blame.

    sometimes you're just as culpable when you watch something as when you actually participate
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We should record in particular that we have found no evidence of deliberate distortion or of culpable negligence.
    • It is difficult to apportion blame since both sides seem to be equally culpable.
    • But they are both culpable for putting political life on the danger list.
    • It seems to me in the media, particular in this country in the national media, are so culpable.
    • Now if that is not a form of culpable negligence, then I do not know what is.
    • How culpable are they, can they be held responsible and will they pay for their mistake?
    • Now many of us will agree that such a person is culpable and guilty.
    • Equally culpable are drivers who use the outside lane, despite clear inside lanes, and travel far below the speed limit.
    • And to remain apathetic in the face of such unnecessary suffering renders us all culpable.
    • If they don't, are they culpable for the death and suffering that results?
    • In fact, yours truly may be even more culpable for, as he and others have repeatedly said, I found the chief.
    • If we believe that humans are morally culpable for sexual behavior then we must uphold that view.
    • The culpable do not break down and confess their sins merely as the result of close questioning.
    • While you list a number of shops that are failing to provide access to wheelchair users, other businesses are equally culpable.
    • It will not please England, though, that two of his wickets, both front-line batsmen, were culpable.
    • In this, of all ages, we should learn the lesson that to put only a fraction of the potentially culpable in the dock is to invite injustice.
    • The above argument is not a defence of genuine culpable negligence.
    • In public he pleads culpable to his part in that shock result.
    • Here, knowledge and intent or culpable negligence would seem to be required for criminal liability.
    • Journalists who had followed the case from start to finish could not agree how culpable she was, how knowingly she lied.
    Synonyms
    to blame, guilty, at fault, in the wrong, blameworthy, blameable, censurable, reproachable, reprovable, found wanting

Origin

Middle English (in the sense ‘deserving punishment’): from Old French coupable, culpable, from Latin culpabilis, from culpare ‘to blame’, from culpa ‘fault, blame’.

 
 
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