单词 | blameworthy |
释义 | blameworthy Synonyms: < 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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