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单词 blameworthy
释义 blameworthy
\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷\ adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from blame (II) + worthy
: deserving blame : at fault : censurable
Synonyms:
 blamable, guilty, culpable: blameworthy and blamable, wide in application and lacking specific suggestions, are used when guilty and culpable are too severe
  < anyone in any party who falls below the level of the high spirit of national unity which alone can give national salvation is blameworthy — Sir Winston Churchill >
  < a blamable or at least questionable, lack of such doings — G.G.Coulton >
  guilty usually refers to serious offenses
  < in old German law infanticide was treated as the murder of a relative. The guilty mother was buried alive in a sack — W.G.Sumner >
  It may indicate legal proof or conviction of guilt
  < tried, all five, found guilty, and put to death — Robert Browning >
  It may indicate a state of mind or the expression of it
  < the woman's face was guilty — Arnold Bennett >
  culpable suggests less stringent blame than guilty and connotes malfeasance or errors of omission, negligence, or ignorance
  < a most urgent telegram was dispatched to you from London by Godfrey Staunton at six-fifteen yesterday evening — a telegram which is undoubtedly associated with his disappearance — and yet you have not had it. It is most culpable — A. Conan Doyle >
  < the prevailing abuses, culpable stupidity, common dishonesty and empty political buncombe, which too often passes for statesmanship — J.H.Robinson †1936 >
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