culpable
adjective/ˈkʌlpəbl/
/ˈkʌlpəbl/
(formal)- responsible and deserving blame for having done something wrong
- The accident was the result of a culpable failure to consider the risks involved.
Extra Examples- She believed him culpable of murder.
- The prime minister is highly culpable in this affair.
- You are equally culpable in this affair.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- believe somebody
- hold somebody
- …
- equally
- morally
- in
- of
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘deserving punishment’): from Old French coupable, culpable, from Latin culpabilis, from culpare ‘to blame’, from culpa ‘fault, blame’.Definitions on the go
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