blameworthy

Examples

• All

• Here, we would ask military professionals more insistently to be moral, and would find them more blameworthy should they fail.

  Academic text (1997)

• Don't we say, in legal settings for example, that adult humans are blameworthy and praiseworthy for their actions?

  Blog text (20)

• How funny, you seem to feel blameworthy for the length of your post.

  Blog text (21)

• So what's blameworthy about the desire?

  Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy

• Ultimately, a person is not blameworthy merely for the fact that he had bad beliefs.

  Blog text (30)

• Such good little soldiers, such diligent students of where they went wrong, so impeccably blameworthy.

  Fiction book (1997)

• The poets, of course, are the most blameworthy sources of these defective understandings.

  Academic text (2000)

• The Bush administration isn't blameless, but it is hardly the only blameworthy party.

  Blog text (30)

• Does the Church teach that unnatural or artificial means of birth control are immoral and blameworthy?

  Blog text (13)

• In fact, in the expansion of prosecutorial oversight, negligent behavior, previously ignored, has, in certain instances, started to be seen as "blameworthy" in itself.

  Academic text (2018)

Synonyms

R

responsible

vsblameworthy

953 3.0

The person or thing that causes something bad

is about deserving disapproval for harmful actions rather than merely causing them

A

at fault

vsblameworthy

62 3.4

Responsible for causing a problem or mistake and deserving blame

focuses on moral disapproval for harmful actions rather than mere causation

R

reprehensible

vsblameworthy

• Formal

50 7.9

Morally wrong and deserving strong criticism

is less intense, meaning deserving disapproval but not extreme condemnation

C

culpable

vsblameworthy

26 7.5

Deserving blame for doing something wrong

focuses on deserving disapproval for wrong or harmful actions rather than responsibility

U

unworthy

vsblameworthy

• Offensive

20 5.4

Deserves strong blame or dislike

is more neutral, focusing on disapproval for harmful actions rather than moral worth

C

condemnable

vsblameworthy

1 7.5

Deserving strong criticism for being wrong

is about general disapproval rather than severe condemnation

D

discreditable

vsblameworthy

1 7.6

Likely to harm someone's reputation by showing shameful behaviour

is about being disapproved for harmful actions rather than harming reputation

B

blameful

vsblameworthy

1 7.9

Deserving criticism because someone did something wrong

is about deserving disapproval for wrong or harmful actions

B

blamable

vsblameworthy

6.3

Deserving criticism for doing something wrong or causing harm

is about general disapproval for harmful actions rather than legal fault

B

blameable

vsblameworthy

6.4

People think it caused harm or did something wrong

focuses on deserving disapproval for harmful acts rather than proving cause

R

reproachable

vsblameworthy

7.5

Deserving blame for doing something wrong

is about deserving disapproval for wrong or harmful actions rather than mere fault

C

censurable

vsblameworthy

• Formal

8.9

Deserving blame or formal criticism

is about ordinary disapproval for harmful acts rather than formal censure

Antonyms

I

innocent

∞ 2.2

Not guilty of a crime or wrongdoing

F

faultless

3 4.9

Free from mistakes or flaws

How Blameworthy

reprehensible

• Formal

50 7.9

guilty

∞ 2.3

blameworthy

1 6.5

culpable

26 7.5

at fault

62 3.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology