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blameable

blameable \blame"a*ble\ adj. same as blameworthy.

Syn: blameworthy, blamable, blameful, censurable, culpable.

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blameable

a. (alternative spelling of blamable English)

WordNet
blameable

adj. deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious; "blameworthy if not criminal behavior"; "censurable misconduct"; "culpable negligence" [syn: blameworthy, blamable, blameful, censurable, culpable]

Usage examples of "blameable".

Universe, how they make the Soul blameable for the association with body, how they revile the Administrator of this All, how they ascribe to the Creator, identified with the Soul, the character and experiences appropriate to partial be beings.

As a matter of fact the ancient doctrine of the Divine Essences was far the sounder and more instructed, and must be accepted by all not caught in the delusions that beset humanity: it is easy also to identify what has been conveyed in these later times from the ancients with incongruous novelties--how for example, where they must set up a contradictory doctrine, they introduce a medley of generation and destruction, how they cavil at the Universe, how they make the Soul blameable for the association with body, how they revile the Administrator of this All, how they ascribe to the Creator, identified with the Soul, the character and experiences appropriate to partial be beings.

Who can damage me except yourself, by bringing forward a single crime against me, or even a blameable action?

Now it required no very blameable degree of suspicion to imagine that Mr.

I once more repeat it to you, he hath carried his friendship to this man to a blameable length, by too long concealing facts of the blackest die.

No quality, it is allowed, is absolutely either blameable or praiseworthy.

A desire of fame, reputation, or a character with others, is so far from being blameable, that it seems inseparable from virtue, genius, capacity, and a generous or noble disposition.

If it is blameable in Skimpole to take the note, it is blameable in Bucket to offer the note--much more blameable in Bucket, because he is the knowing man.

There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis, by a pretence of its dangerous consequences to religion and morality.

The miser, who thinks himself respectable, merely because he possesses wealth, and thus mistakes the means of doing good, for the actual accomplishment of it, is not more blameable than the man of sentiment, without active virtue.

It owes that truth to much that is blamed on the Jews, possibly to much that is blameable in the Jews.

What blameable pride, what meanness, in accepting gifts which draw upon me contempt and derision--I will no longer support it.

His smaller habits were none remarkable, except that his diet was rather more blameable in the article of wine.

And I should account it most blameable hotheadedness to have sallied forth when it seemed Spitfire had the victory.

Nor indeed were they altogether blameable for acting on this maxim, if their sole aim was to remove from the confidence and councils of their sovereign, a man whose conduct they thought prejudicial to the interests and liberties of their country.