Definitions for Culpable
ˈkʌl pə bəlcul·pa·ble

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. blameworthy, blamable, blameable, blameful, censurable, culpableadjective

   deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious

   "blameworthy if not criminal behavior"; "censurable misconduct"; "culpable negligence"

WiktionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. culpableadjective

   meriting condemnation, censure or blame, especially as something wrong, harmful or injurious; blameworthy

   I am culpable for stealing your money. (Deserving Blame)

2. Etymology: From culpable, from culpable, from culpabilis, from culpare, from culpa

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. CULPABLEadjective

   Etymology: culpabilis, Latin.

   1. Criminal.

   Proceed no straiter ’gainst our uncle Glo’ster,
   Than from true evidence of good esteem,
   He be approv’d in practice culpable. William Shakespeare, Henry VI. p. ii.

   2. Guilty.

   These being perhaps culpable of this crime, or favourers of their friends. Edmund Spenser, State of Ireland.

   3. Blameable; blameworthy.

   The wisdom of God setteth before us in Scripture so many admirable patterns of virtue, and no one of them, without somewhat noted wherein they were culpable, to the end that to him alone it might always be acknowledged, Thou only art holy, Thou only art just. Richard Hooker, Preface.

   All such ignorance is voluntary, and therefore culpable; for as much as it was in every man’s power to have prevented it. Robert South, Sermons.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. culpable

   In criminal law, culpability, or being culpable, is a measure of the degree to which an agent, such as a person, can be held morally or legally responsible for action and inaction. It has been noted that the word, culpability, "ordinarily has normative force, for in nonlegal English, a person is culpable only if he is justly to blame for his conduct". Culpability therefore marks the dividing line between moral evil, like murder, for which someone may be held legally responsible, and a randomly occurring event, like naturally occurring earthquakes or naturally arriving meteorites, for which no human can be held responsible.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Culpableadjective

   deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral; criminal

2. Culpableadjective

   guilty; as, culpable of a crime

3. Etymology: [OE. culpable, coulpable, coupable, F. coupable, formerly also coupable, formerly also coulpable, culpable, fr. L. culpabilis, fr. culpare to blame, fr. culpa fault.]

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1. Culpable

   Culpable is a 1960 Argentine crime drama directed and starring Hugo del Carril. The film was based on a play by Eduardo Borrás. The film starred Mario Soffici and Silvia Legrand.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Culpable

   kul′pa-bl, adj. faulty: criminal.—ns. Culpabil′ity, Cul′pableness, liability to blame.—adv. Cul′pably.—adj. Cul′patory, expressive of blame. [O. Fr. coupable—L. culpabilis—culpa, a fault.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Culpable in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Culpable in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Culpable in a Sentence

1. Neama Rahmani:

   What you want as a criminal defense attorney, especially when you're representing a defendant who is arguably less culpable, and Bryan was arguably less culpable, is to sever him or her from the other defendants, because it's arguably prejudicial to be tried with Travis McMichael, who pulled the trigger, or Gregory, who said, ‘I’m going to blow your f------ head off,'.

2. Christopher Callahan:

   Before our work we had a pretty good idea of the economic effect of global warming. The problem is, that is not sufficient to provide an understanding of how culpable individual actors are.

3. Anil Tank:

   He has been arrested for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

4. Lance Armstrong:

   I am deeply sorry for many things I have done. However, it is my hope that revealing the truth will lead to a bright, dope-free future for the sport I love, in the rush to vilify Lance, many of the other equally culpable participants have been allowed to escape scrutiny, much less sanction, and many of the anti-doping 'enforcers' have chosen to grandstand at Lance's expense rather than truly search for the truth.

5. Kim Foxx:

   I think this office, based on (the) charging decisions, believed that he is culpable of doing that.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Culpable
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Culpable
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Culpable
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culpable
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Culpable
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Culpable
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Culpable