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cul·pa·ble /'kəl-pə-bəl/ adj: deserving condemnation or blame as wrong or harmfulcul·pa·bil·i·ty /ˌkəl-pə-'bi-lə-tē/ ncul·pa·ble·ness ncul·pa·bly adv
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam-Webster. 1996.
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accusable, at fault, blamable, blameworthy, censurable, chargeable, condemnable, convictable, criminal, criminous, culpandus, delinquent, deserving blame, deserving censure, discreditable, dishonest, disorderly, dissolute, encroaching, felonious, guilty, having violated the law, improper, in error, in the wrong, indictable, indiscreet, lawbreaking, lawless, meriting censure, meriting condemnation, misdemeanant, peccant, punishable, responsible, transgressing, unrighteous, worthy of blame, wrong
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at fault, blameful, blameworthy, contemptible, delinquent (guilty of a misdeed), disobedient, felonious, guilty, iniquitous, peccable, reprehensible, reprobate, sinister, unjustifiable
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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adj.Guilty; deserving blame or punishment.n.culpability
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008.
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Sufficiently responsible for criminal acts or negligence to be at fault and liable for the conduct.Category: Criminal LawCategory: Small Claims Court & Lawsuits
Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary. Gerald N. Hill, Kathleen Thompson Hill. 2009.
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adj. Deserving of blame.
Webster's New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000.
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Blameworthy; involving the commission of a fault or the breach of a duty imposed by law.
Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.
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Blameworthy; involving the commission of a fault or the breach of a duty imposed by law.
Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.
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adj.sufficiently responsible for criminal acts or negligence to be at fault and liable for the conduct. Sometimes culpability rests on whether the person realized the wrongful nature of his/her actions and thus should take the blame.
Law dictionary. EdwART. 2013.
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culpable — (Del lat. culpabĭlis). 1. adj. Se dice de la persona a quien se imputa una acción u omisión ilícitas por haberlas cometido de forma deliberada o con negligencia de sus deberes. U. t. c. s.) 2. Se dice de las acciones y cosas inanimadas. 3. Der.… … Diccionario de la lengua española
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culpable — [kul′pə bəl] adj. [altered, modeled on L < ME coupable < OFr < L culpabilis < culpa, crime, fault, blame] deserving blame; blameworthy culpability [kul′pəbil′ə tē] n. culpably [kul′pəblē] adv … English World dictionary