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culpability

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noun

guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.

Sometimes, cul·pa·ble·ness.

Origin:
culpabl(e) + -ity

Related forms

non·cul·pa·bil·i·ty, noun

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Example Sentences

But the culpability of family members is not always so clear cut.

If they choose to waste people's time and get their hopes up, there is moral culpability there, too.

Delta settled out of court, but has not admitted culpability.

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But the culpability of family members is not always so clear cut.

If they choose to waste people's time and get their hopes up, there is moral culpability there, too.

Delta settled out of court, but has not admitted culpability.

It's not about hiding misconduct or culpability but avoiding the fickle inclinations of the market.

More often than not, suits are settled as a matter of economic efficiency, not police culpability.

Mistakes were made, he says, without offering an apology or a hint of culpability.

Controversy is also brewing over the culpability of the government.

We should avoid allowing discoveries in neuroscience and deterministic paradigms to erase culpability for a person's actions.

Those who speak in terms of moral clarity fail to see how innocence and culpability can wear the same face.

As in so many other cases, the real culpability lies elsewhere.

But blaming the system for cheating ignores the culpability of the students themselves.

Their culpability comes from promoting counter-insurgency.

He said central bankers and regulators bear culpability too.

It must have been your own guilt and culpability that would have led you to respond to my comments.

She apologized yesterday for any culpability or negligence by the state.

Nichols's shoulder and said the prosecution had not proved his culpability in the deadly blast.

Others embrace evolution out of a desire to avoid culpability for their own chosen form of wickedness.

Denying culpability is a strong mark against winning parole.

Issues of legal culpability aside, no one is presenting the episode as a model of effective crisis communication.

Granted, this is an issue of moral culpability not an existential threat.

Bush must make sure that any investigation is not only fair but thorough, examining culpability along the entire chain of command.

We feel more for the innocent, but will search desparately for the culpability of human victims.

One question that seems to be ignored is the culpability of the defeated party in terms of civilian deaths.

Yet this seems to have little bearing on how society deals with insanity and culpability in the legal arena.

SC's at cc's may have conditions beyond their control that limit their moral culpability somewhat.

Goldberg, today left no doubt about the culpability of those.

Pending further investigations, legal culpability was uncertain.

Smith was the first time a court had specifically addressed the issue of criminal culpability of volunteer.

The group had not previously admitted its culpability.

King would suggest greater culpability by the officers.

It does not focus on the culpability of government and business leaders, as the main report does.

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World English Dictionary

culpable (ˈkʌlpəb^əl)

—*adj*
	deserving censure; blameworthy

[C14: from Old French coupable, from Latin culpābilis, from culpāre to blame, from culpa fault]

culpa'bility

—n

'culpableness

—n

'culpably

—*adv*

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"A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment."

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