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culpable
What does culpable mean?
culpable (adjective): meriting condemnation, censure or blame, especially as something wrong, harmful or injurious; blameworthy, guilty.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use culpable in a sentence?
- Someone who sees something wrong being done and does nothing about it, is as culpable as the perpetrator of the act. (Tatoeba sentence #3693613 by patgfisher, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce culpable?
/ˈkʌlpəbəl/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does culpable come from?
From Middle English culpable, from Old French culpable.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to culpable
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “culpable” mean?
both detectable and at least modestly substantial: large enough to be estimated and to be of practical relevance
Not quite: that's what appreciable means.
lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed)
Not quite: that's what ulterior means.
feeling a sense of spinning in the head, causing a perception of unsteadiness and being about to fall down; dizzy
Not quite: that's what giddy means.
meriting condemnation, censure or blame, especially as something wrong, harmful or injurious; blameworthy, guilty
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