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单词 culpable
释义
culpable
adjective
formal
uk
/ˈkʌl.pə.bəl/us
/ˈkʌl.pə.bəl/
deservingto beblamedorconsideredresponsiblefor somethingbad:
应受谴责的；该受处罚的；该对错误负责的
He washeldculpable(=blamed)forall that hadhappened.他被认为应该为所发生的一切负责。
Synonym
blameworthyformal
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
be to blame for something
  • be to blameNo one can decide who is to blame.
  • be at faultBoth the fans and the players were at fault.
  • be someone's faultThis is all my fault.
  • be responsibleWe're still trying to determine who was responsible for the attacks.
  • the blame lies withSome of the blame lies with investors.
  • the blame rests withMuch of the blame rests with the government, which has confused people with conflicting health messages
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Guilty
  • answerable
  • blameworthy
  • blood
  • convict
  • convicted
  • conviction
  • guilt
  • guiltiness
  • guilty
  • guilty as chargedidiom
  • have (someone's) blood onyourhandsidiom
  • reconvict
  • reconviction
  • responsible
  • suspect

Related words

culpability
culpably
(Definition ofculpablefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

culpable| American Dictionary

culpable
adjective
fml
us
/ˈkʌl·pə·bəl/
deservingto beblamedorconsideredresponsiblefor somethingbad:
Thelandownercould beprovedculpable forstartingthefire.

culpability

noun[U]us
/ˌkʌl·pəˈbɪl·ɪ·t̬i/
Hestronglydeniesany culpability in thetragedy.
(Definition ofculpablefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofculpable

culpable
It is hard to imagine that this event could have occurred without morallyculpablechoices in its history.
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If there are particular things that every responsible physician should know in order to effectively respond during disasters, then continuing in ignorance isculpable.
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Citizens might doubt that behavior that they believe is innocent would be allowed or would be foundculpableand deserving of punishment.
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Nevertheless, the fair-opportunity branch of the choice theory also fails as a theory of theculpablemind.
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Parents who lack the resources to move their families surely are notculpablefor continuing to live in crime-ridden or politically volatile areas.
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Then it seems that the teller isculpablefor complying with the threat.
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Punishment is deserved for theculpableunjust harm done on others.
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That is to say, even well-devised course modules might be heldculpablefor routine difficulties in teachers' first years.
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In my view, psychopaths at this extreme would not be morallyculpablefor their unlawful behavior.
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But then the conditions required forculpableconduct are, arguably, satisfied in these cases.
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An incapacity to know right from wrong seems to make aculpablechoice impossible rather than simply absent, as it does for the infant.
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On this view,culpablebehavior that reasonably induces reliance gives rise to what the law describes as an implied agreement.
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This influenced ideas about who wasculpablein adulterous relationships.
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How prominent were the clergy in this change and, in the eyes of the poor, howculpable?
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This species of the mindas-enclosure model is expressed chiefly in its morallyculpablefailure.
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