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Thesaurus: culpable

Deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral; criminal.

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  1. a. Deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral; criminal.
  2. a. Guilty; as, culpable of a crime.
  3. adj. deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious
  4. 1. Deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral; criminal. State Trials (1413). If he acts according to the best reason he hath, he is not culpable, though he be mistaken in his measures. Sharp. 2. Guilty; as, clpable of a crime. [Obs.] Spenser. -- Cul"pa*ble*ness, n. -- Cul"pa*bly, adv.
  5. j:100 s deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious