culpable

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: They failed in their attempt to make the other driver culpable for the old damage and the claim was thrown out.

Modifies a noun

• homicide: In 1840, a Glasgow chimney sweep named Francis Hughes was charged with the culpable homicide of his young assistant, John O'Neill.
• negligence: Was the cause wilful, criminal, culpable, gross negligence or accident?
• neglect: The Court will decide if your failure to pay is due to wilful refusal or culpable neglect.
• ignorance: The resulting problems are compounded by culpable ignorance backed by arrogance.
• delay: We have considered whether there was culpable delay in recommending this measure.
• failure: Note that this is so even in cases where the culpable failure falls short of " neglect " in the Jamieson sense.

Modifying Another Word

• morally: We consider them to have been morally culpable to some extent.
• equally: Attempts to prove the criminal nature of the regime seemed to declare all Germans equally culpable.
• not: It is the voice of a girl ' I who am not culpable, guiltless, pure.
• personally: A frank answer, so I brave the frank question, ' Do you feel personally culpable for that disaster?
• especially: Asda is especially culpable since so many of its stores are out of town.
• particularly: A Mr. W. Heidrick, long-term member of the Caliphate OTO, is particularly culpable here.

Used with adjective complement

• find: In the event of an accident any person involved can be found culpable under the law.
• hold: Sidney's position on meter, like many writers, suffers from inconsistency for which he cannot be held culpable.

Preposition: in

• incident: Should the Domestic Bursar appear to be culpable in the incident, the concerns should be brought to the Sub Warden.
• eye: The insistent denials have made him more culpable in the eyes of millions of people.
• crime: Everybody knows it and evrybody knows Blair was at best grossly misguided and at worst duplicitous and culpable in a war crime.
• sense: But all the violence is just too cartoonishly absurd to be culpable in that sense.

Preposition: for

• goal: I don't hold the defenders culpable for the goals.