Adjective
Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known. Bob Woodward
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. Bertrand Russell
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom. Charles Cooley
The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art. Harold Rosenberg
Conscientiously though we have sought to avoid them, the reader may find errors attributable in part to inaccurate sources and to faulty recollection. To those who may feel themselves wronged, I freely acknowledge that this is in part a book of opinion and that the opinion is my own. Omar Bradley
The contrast between Tolstoy's discretion and Dostoevsky's exhibitionism, between the restraint of the one and the ‘dancing about naked in public' of the other-as someone says in The Possessed-is attributable to the same social gap as separated Voltaire from Rousseau. Arnold Hauser