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adjective
- 1. deserving blame: "mercy killings are less culpable than ‘ordinary’ murders"
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CULPABLE definition: 1. deserving to be blamed or considered responsible for something bad: 2. deserving to be blamed…. Learn more.
The meaning of CULPABLE is meriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful. How to use culpable in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Culpable.
culpable / ˈ kʌlpəbəl/ adjective. Britannica Dictionary definition of CULPABLE. [more culpable; most culpable] formal. : deserving blame : guilty of doing something wrong. They held her culpable for the accident. He's more culpable than the others because he's old enough to know better.
Culpable means to be at fault. Culpable is being deserving of blame. If you are culpable of a crime, you are the culprit, or the one who did it. Culpable can be used when looking for the root of the problem rather than a simple who done it.
(kʌlpəbəl ) adjective. If someone or their conduct is culpable, they are responsible for something wrong or bad that has happened. [formal] Their decision to do nothing makes them culpable. ...manslaughter resulting from culpable negligence. Synonyms: blameworthy, wrong, guilty, to blame More Synonyms of culpable.
Culpable means deserving blame for a crime or wrongdoing. When someone is described as culpable for something, it means it’s their fault or that they are guilty of it. Culpable is typically used in serious legal contexts involving crimes.
culpable - deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious; "blameworthy if not criminal behavior"; "censurable misconduct"; "culpable negligence"
Definition of culpable adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
CULPABLE meaning: deserving to be blamed for something bad. Learn more.
From Middle English culpable, from Old French culpable, from Latin culpabilis (“blameworthy”), from culpare (“to blame, condemn”), from culpa (“fault, crime, mistake”) From Wiktionary
