as in blame
responsibility for wrongdoing or failure
cannot find culpability where there is neither knowledge that a crime has been committed nor evidence of intent to commit a crime
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as in guilty
deserving reproach or blame
are you any less culpable for murder if you acted in the heat of passion?
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Recent Examples of culpability
Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2024
Poppe has been focused on turning around the company’s operations, safety record, and culture, after PG&E’s culpability in the 2018 Camp wildfire put the utility into bankruptcy.
—Diane Brady, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024
Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
Social apps like TikTok and Instagram are certainly culpable, but a lack of parental mindfulness, understanding and intervention are also to blame.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 27 Sep. 2024
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Noun
Chasing after a simpler trail of culpability keeps us circling back, decade after decade, to figure out how the music industry that enabled R. Kelly, a church of the almighty dollar where the hit is holy, has yielded yet another golden-eared terror.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2024
Poppe has been focused on turning around the company’s operations, safety record, and culture, after PG&E’s culpability in the 2018 Camp wildfire put the utility into bankruptcy.
—Diane Brady, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024
Adjective
The industry may be culpable for direct indicators of global warming, but not these indirect killer extremes.
—Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
Social apps like TikTok and Instagram are certainly culpable, but a lack of parental mindfulness, understanding and intervention are also to blame.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 27 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for culpability
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This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times.Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
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At his Monday media session, the Texans coach placed the blame for linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair’s vicious forearm to the head of a defenseless Trevor Lawrence on the Jacksonville QB.Bob Raissman, New York Daily News, 7 Dec. 2024
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Trump pleaded not guilty to every charge against him.Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 8 Dec. 2024
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Terry Martin was later indicted and pleaded guilty to the theft.Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2024
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Helping children ‘get it right’ moves away from shame and guilt and toward feelings of positive self-worth and capability.Kelsey Mora, Contributor, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2024
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By one hand, he is bound to himself, to his impiety, his recklessness, his envy and pride, his guilt and spite.Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
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But even more blameworthy has been the president’s assault on U.S. institutions, which began long before the novel coronavirus appeared and will be felt long after it is gone.Daron Acemoglu, Foreign Affairs, 23 Mar. 2020
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His political support group consists mainly of sycophants who seek status by riding his popular coattails, while the erstwhile staff of his late presidential office have either now become subjects for criminal prosecution or — if not blameworthy — are adamantly urging against his return.Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 3 May 2024
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“Culpability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/culpability. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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