culpable

Speech parts

1. culpable - Adjective

2. culpable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral; criminal.

Guilty; as, culpable of a crime.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

blamable blameworthy censurable blameful blameable slack comet chargeable erring red-handed guiltily responsible criminal wrong guilty

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Antonyms

virgin frankish natural clear franc godly

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Phrases with the word

culpable act less culpable culpable of culpable neglect culpable negliglence

Examples

blameworthy if not criminal behavior Source: Internet

censurable misconduct Source: Internet

culpable negligence Source: Internet

A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday ordered that a 27-year-old mechanic, Adamu Isah, be remanded in a correctional facility over alleged culpable homicide. Source: Internet

Article IX - Any man being presumed innocent until he is declared culpable, if it is judged indispensable to arrest him, any rigor which would not be necessary for the securing of his person must be severely reprimanded by the law. Source: Internet

Drange considers the distinction between reasonable (by which Schellenberg means inculpable) and unreasonable (culpable) nonbelief to be irrelevant and confusing. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Culp culpa culpability culpable act culpable homicide culpable neglect