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blameworthy

[ bleym-wur-thee ]

adjective

  1. deserving blame; blameful:

    a blameworthy administration.



blameworthy

/ ˈbleɪmˌwɜːðɪ /

adjective

  1. deserving disapproval or censure


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Derived Forms

  • ˈblameˌworthiness, noun

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Other Words From

  • blameworthi·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of blameworthy1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; blame, worthy

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Example Sentences

You can bear to stay in this house which I—I—infinitely less blameworthy than yourself—can hardly endure to enter?

The being acts according to its nature, and why is it blameworthy more than the brute?

This sort of aggression was considered by the majority of the representatives an enterprise as blameworthy as it was senseless.

One man is rich, another poor: let him not be thought blameworthy.

This vice, however, should not appear as blameworthy as that of avarice.

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