culpably
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- adverb
- /ˈkʌlpəblɪ/
- Formal
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culpablemente
- He acted culpably when he ignored the warning signs and put others at risk.
- more culpably
Examples
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In the criminal law context, a victim might similarly have unclean hands if he was a coconspirator in the offense, if he unreasonably provoked the offender, or if he culpably contributed to the harm he suffered at the offender's hands in some other way.
Academic text (2017) -
The teacher explained the culpably careless actions of the student that led to the accident.
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Obviously, it could be fair to expect someone to know something that most people do not, if most people are culpably ignorant of some significant fact.
Blog text (2) -
So I was very culpably careless regarding your story, and besides, here is another reason for my lack of interest: your tale was inexplicable.
Blog text (19) -
It's a kind of sadness for the harm that you've caused someone, usually culpably, but actually the coupable part is not strictly necessary.
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And in the commission of sin, sufficient means supplied by that will and designed in order to effect the intended salvation had been culpably despised and put to ruin.
Academic text (2018) -
Accordingly, it is fair to treat an offender who causes harm as if he had "assumed the risk" of a variable penalty when he chose to behave culpably.
Academic text (2017) -
She agrees with Kittay that dependency is a central "mark of the human condition" that has been culpably absent from most philosophical theories of politics.
Fiction book (2002) -
The language of the characters and the representation of God as the originator of meaning suggest that these Welsh peasants are doubly (but culpably) deprived.
Academic text (1996) -
It is less clear, however, what justifies this discrepancy in severity, given that Lynch does not seem to have behaved any more culpably than Calderon.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
In a way that deserves a lot of blame for bad behavior
Antonyms
How Blameworthy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Culpably comes from the Latin word culpa meaning 'fault' or 'blame', and is related to the familiar word culprit, a person you blame. So, to do something culpably is to act in a way that deserves blame.