What does culpable mean?
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ˈkʌl pə bəlcul·pa·ble
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Princeton's WordNet
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"
Wiktionary
culpableadjective
meriting condemnation, censure or blame, especially as something wrong, harmful or injurious; blameworthy
I am culpable for stealing your money. (Deserving Blame)
Etymology: From culpable, from culpable, from culpabilis, from culpare, from culpa
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
CULPABLEadjective
Etymology: culpabilis, Latin.
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.These being perhaps culpable of this crime, or favourers of their friends. Edmund Spenser, State of Ireland.
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.
Wikipedia
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.
ChatGPT
culpable
Culpable refers to the quality of being guilty or deserving blame for one's actions or misdeeds. Being culpable implies a degree of responsibility for negative outcomes or consequences caused by one's behavior or decisions.
Webster Dictionary
Culpableadjective
deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral; criminal
Culpableadjective
guilty; as, culpable of a crime
Etymology: [OE. culpable, coulpable, coupable, F. coupable, formerly also coupable, formerly also coulpable, culpable, fr. L. culpabilis, fr. culpare to blame, fr. culpa fault.]
Wikidata
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 Dictionary
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.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of culpable in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of culpable in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of culpable in a Sentence
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.
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.
He has been arrested for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
I think this office, based on (the) charging decisions, believed that he is culpable of doing that.
They're going to file their appeals, criminal defendants always do, but it was a pretty clean case in my book, 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,'.
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