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(adj)
Meriting condemnation, censure or blame, especially as something wrong, harmful or injurious; blameworthy, guilty.
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blameworthy
Alternative spelling of blamable. [Deserving blame]
(n)
A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law.
Deserving blame
Having a strong sense of guilt.
Deserving of censure; blameworthy.
Deserving blame or censure; reprehensible.
Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.
Subject to punishment; appropriate for punishment.
Adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.
Punishable by a fine.
For which a fine can be levied
Able or deserving to be indicted. (of a person)
That has been shamed.
Ashamed, displaying shame, especially by blushing in the face.
Low; sneaking; ashamed.
Guilty of murder or bloodshed.
(of expenses etc.) That may be charged to an account.
deserving blame
affected by conscience
(N)
a 1950 American crime film noir directed by Henry Levin and starring Glenn Ford and Broderick Crawford.
(chiefly of someone in trouble and undergoing punishment for doing something wrong) Feeling shame or guilt.
The degree of one's blameworthiness in the commission of a crime or offence.
The person or thing at fault for a problem or crime.
Responsibility for wrongdoing.
Responsibility for something meriting censure.
One who perpetrates; especially, one who commits an offence or crime.
(countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law, especially criminal law.
Someone who does wrong, whether morally, ethically, or in contravention of a law.
(architecture) Clipping of perpendicular. [(geometry) At or forming a right angle (to something).]
A person who commits an offense against the law, a lawbreaker.
The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong.
Blameworthy, censurable, guilty.
(v)
(transitive) To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate.
Synonym of condemnatory.
Opposite; in an opposite direction; in opposition; adverse.
(countable) A firmly held belief.
Evil or mischievous by nature; morally reprehensible.
wrong or unjust
(typically uncountable) Culpability; the responsibility for a blameworthy event.
With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable.
Associated with or participating in an activity, especially one of a questionable nature.
Incorrect or untrue.
Of low quality.
An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty.
Obliged, when called upon, to answer (for one’s deeds); answerable.
Straying from the proper course or standard, or outside established limits.
Obligated or locked in (often, but not necessarily, by a pledge) to some course of action.
Under an obligation to do something.
Very unpleasant; disagreeable.
Causing death, destruction, or obliteration.
A person who commits murder.
Alternative spelling of dutybound. [Compelled by duty.]
(literally) One who handles something (especially manually) or someone.
Abbreviation of unsubscribe. [(intransitive) To cancel a subscription, especially to an online service.]
Free from blame; without fault; innocent
Free from guilt, sin, or immorality.
Synonym of manly. (Only used in man enough.)
The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition; or, one of the creators of a collaborative work.
British, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada standard spelling of offense.
Someone who shoots something; a gunner, archer, etc.
(colloquial) A man or boy; a fellow.
(ambitransitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
(climbing, slang) Completely solid and secure, usually referring to some form of protective gear.
Someone who intentionally kills a person, especially a professional who kills a public or political figure.
The capital and largest city of North Sumatra, Indonesia.
the fourth studio album by the American band The Blood Brothers, released on October 12, 2004, by V2 Records.
a Finnish gothic metal band that played melodic death metal in their early years.
Required to justify one's actions (to somebody); accountable, responsible.
Of a person, etc.: that commits or has committed an offence or a sin; blameworthy, culpable, offending, sinful, sinning.
Constituting a sin; morally or religiously wrong; wicked; evil.
Sincerely penitent or feeling regret or sorrow, especially for one’s own actions.
(transitive) To indicate the guilt of.
Feeling pain or sorrow on account of one's sins or offenses; feeling sincere guilt.
(of a person) Feeling or filled with remorse.
(law) The person charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal case.
Free from guilt; innocent.
Having been acquitted; having gone through a trial that resulted in something other than a guilty verdict.
A surname.
Not culpable; immune from liability.
(adv)
In a culpable manner.
That has been the object of punishment.
Freed from any question of guilt, acquitted.
Having electricity.
Which one admits or avows.
Careless or inattentive.
(transitive, law, followed by "of") To charge with having committed a crime or offence.
The act of making a confession.
The act by which something is committed.
That has been cleared from a sin or an offence.
(uncountable) Violation of standards of behavior.
To accuse of wrongdoing; charge.
The state of being guiltless; innocence.
(transitive) To declare or find innocent or not guilty.