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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Responsible for doing wrong or causing undesirable effects; deserving blame.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Deserving blame; censurable; culpable; reprehensible.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Deserving blame; culpable; reprehensible.
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- adjective
Deserving blame orcensure ;reprehensible .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious
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Examples
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They agreed that Obama's inability to produce a strong recovery - since Bush, however blameworthy, is not on the ballot - would prove decisive next Tuesday.
HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now w/ Huffington & Matalin , on Scary Midterms, Bill Clinton, Jon Stewart & Keith Richards HuffPost Radio 2010
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The most "blameworthy" party is George W. Bush, and his administration.
Compare And Contrast: Hillary And Obama's Votes On Iraq 2009
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I am not meaning to imply that there was any kind of blameworthy insincerity in this.
Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him Joseph P. Tumulty
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I am not meaning to imply that there was any kind of blameworthy insincerity in this.
Woodrow Wilson as I know Him Tumulty, Joseph P 1921
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The inquiry found Lt.Gen. Awadesh Prakash and Lt.Gen. P.K. Rath 'blameworthy', said an official, not divulging further details.
unknown title 2009
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Nor did they consider whether the alleged activities would in fact be blameworthy.
Eastern Europe 2009
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That such compromises get made is neither remarkable nor blameworthy.
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That such compromises get made is neither remarkable nor blameworthy.
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Oaths are only meaningful, and it is only morally blameworthy to violate them, if they are freely given.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Not the Best Way to Inspire Confidence 2010
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“Calls for violence against homosexuals” would be a sign of extremism, no doubt, but is it equally pernicious to argue that homosexual acts are morally blameworthy?
Britain 2010
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Words with the same meaning
- abominable
- accusable
- amiss
- arraignable
- arrant
- at fault
- atrocious
- awful
- bad
- base
- beastly
- beneath contempt
- black
- blamable
- blameful
- brutal
- censurable
- chargeable
- contemptible
- criminal
- culpable
- damnable
- dark
- delinquent
- deplorable
- despicable
- detestable
- dire
- disgraceful
- disgusting
- dreadful
- egregious
- enormous
- evil
- execrable
- faultful
- fetid
- filthy
- flagitious
- flagrant
- foolish
- foul
- fulsome
- grievous
- gross
- guilty
- hateful
- heinous
- horrible
- horrid
- illaudable
- impeachable
- improper
- imputable
- indictable
- infamous
- iniquitous
- irresponsible
- knavish
- lamentable
- loathsome
- lousy
- low
- monstrous
- nasty
- naughty
- nefarious
- noisome
- notorious
- obnoxious
- odious
- offensive
- open to criticism
- outrageous
- peccant
- pitiable
- pitiful
- punishable
- rank
- reckless
- regrettable
- reprehensible
- reproachable
- reprobate
- reprovable
- repulsive
- rotten
- sad
- scandalous
- schlock
- scurvy
- shabby
- shameful
- shocking
- shoddy
- sinful
- sordid
- squalid
- terrible
- to blame
- too bad
- unclean
- uncommendable
- unforgivable
- unholy
- unpardonable
- unpraiseworthy
- unpretty
- unspeakable
- unworthy
- vicious
- vile
- villainous
- wicked
- woeful
- worst
- worthless
- wretched
- wrong
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