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Definition of Blameworthy

1. Adjective. Deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious. "Culpable negligence"

Definition of Blameworthy

1. a. Deserving blame; culpable; reprehensible.

Definition of Blameworthy

1. Adjective. Deserving blame or censure; reprehensible. ¹

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Definition of Blameworthy

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blameworthy

Literary usage of Blameworthy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1909)
"The law considers, in other words, what would be blameworthy in the average man, the man of ordinary intelligence and prudence, and determines liability by ..."

2. History of Modern Philosophy by Kuno Fischer (1887)
"... the understanding, and transforms its infallible light into a Will-o'-the-wisp. Error can be nothing else than a blameworthy ignorance. 3. blameworthy ..."

3. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1869)
"challenged solution, are most blameworthy for withholding it at this ' grave crisis.' Dr. Brady has thus been an indefatigable labourer in this great field ..."

4. The Fairfax Correspondence by George William Johnson, Robert Bell (1848)
"... the Perpetual Parliament "—Proposed amendment of the Lords—All parties blameworthy— Mutual distrust—Charles resolves to revisit Scotland—Reason assigned ..."

5. Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities by William Smith (1892)
"But probably the Greek Л means only " I am conscious to myself of nothing," ie blameworthy or wrong. That the consciousness is not self-condemnatory lies in ..."

6. The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1909)
"The law considers, in other words, what would be blameworthy in the average man, the man of ordinary intelligence and prudence, and determines liability by ..."

7. History of Modern Philosophy by Kuno Fischer (1887)
"... the understanding, and transforms its infallible light into a Will-o'-the-wisp. Error can be nothing else than a blameworthy ignorance. 3. blameworthy ..."

8. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1869)
"challenged solution, are most blameworthy for withholding it at this ' grave crisis.' Dr. Brady has thus been an indefatigable labourer in this great field ..."

9. The Fairfax Correspondence by George William Johnson, Robert Bell (1848)
"... the Perpetual Parliament "—Proposed amendment of the Lords—All parties blameworthy— Mutual distrust—Charles resolves to revisit Scotland—Reason assigned ..."

10. Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities by William Smith (1892)
"But probably the Greek Л means only " I am conscious to myself of nothing," ie blameworthy or wrong. That the consciousness is not self-condemnatory lies in ..."

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