culpa
15
9.9
- noun
- /ˈkʌlpə/
- Formal
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culpa
- Even Dick Morris offered a mea culpa for his outlandish assurances of a Romney landslide.
- mea culpa
Make yourself clear, have mea culpas, be human, apologize, speak and say when something doesn't feel right.
- Make yourself clear, have mea culpas, be human, apologize, speak and say when something doesn't feel right.
- It was just get eyeballs and we Full disclosure and, and mea culpa, when Trayvon Martin happened, that story caught on.
Examples
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If departments want to hold on to students, they should foster the "mea culpa" approach and change their attitude and way of teaching.
Academic text (2016) -
Many letters were self-serving justifications; some acknowledged an element of mea culpa, and all promised that things would improve.
Academic text (1993) -
All right, mea culpa, what do you want of me?
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What I love about mea culpa is you have insight into all of these issues that nobody else has.
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Like mea culpas are really powerful and really important and they can win back trust.
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Then that's a mea culpa on my part for not proofreading well enough.
Blog text (9) -
MEA CULPA: Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt eventually admitted he was partially to blame for the mess.
Academic text (1999) -
Ravitch has reversed her ideas on all three fronts in this mea culpa explanation and defense of a position shift.
Academic text (2011) -
Can we count on you for a public mea culpa when/if this doesn't come true?
Blog text (33) -
After an investigation, the manager took full culpa for the project's failure.
Synonyms
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2.7
A duty to do something and answer for what you do
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1.8
A mistake or personal weakness that causes people to blame someone
359
1.0
Responsibility for a fault or bad situation
198
6.1
Being responsible for your actions and having to explain them to other people
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5.1
A legal responsibility to pay money for damage
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8.3
Being responsible for a fault or doing something wrong
1
7.6
A quality of being at fault for something wrong
Being at fault for doing something wrong
Antonyms
Compounds
How Blameworthy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Culpa comes from the Latin culpa, meaning 'fault' or 'blame', and you can see the same root in English words like culprit and culpable. So culpa today means being at fault or having responsibility for something wrong, especially in legal contexts.