| 单词 | culpability |
| 释义 | culpability (once / 17909 pages) n Culpability is a state of guilt or responsibility. A lot of lawsuits are about who has culpability for something that went wrong. Culpability is a fancy-sounding word, but it's a simple concept: guilt. You have culpability if you're responsible for something, usually something bad. If you left the door open and your house was robbed, you have some culpability (not as much as the robber, though). If a store owner doesn't salt the ice on the sidewalk and you slip, he has some culpability if you get injured. Figuring out culpability is about figuring out who's to blame. WORD FAMILYculpable: culpability, culpableness, culpabler, culpably, inculpable+/inculpable: inculpability, inculpableness, inculpably USAGE EXAMPLESThat panel spent two years investigating, trying to prove the culpability of then-Secretary of State and future Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) Mr. Bourdain said that while he fears Mr. Trump’s election is a foreshadowing of “authoritarianism,” conservatives do not own full culpability for the political landscape. Washington Times(Dec 29, 2016) The government’s vast prosecutorial resources are one reason it properly bears the burden of proving criminal culpability “beyond a reasonable doubt.” Washington Post(Dec 23, 2016) n a state of guilt Syn|Hyper blameworthiness, culpableness guilt, guiltiness the state of having committed an offense |
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