Blameworthy definition

blāmwûrthē
blameworthy
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Responsible for doing wrong or causing undesirable effects; deserving blame.
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Yes, my life has been blameworthy; I confess it. But you know nothing of its temptations.

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Deserving to be blamed.
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Origin of blameworthy

  • blame +‎ -worthy

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Blameworthy Sentence Examples

  • The conduct of Pretorius was stigmatized as " blameworthy.

  • We have just said that Paul was not blameworthy in regard to the divisions with which he had to do.

  • Is it possible for groups, as distinct from their members, to be morally blameworthy for bringing about harm?

  • But in Ibn Ishaq's day these fables were generally accepted as history - for many of them had been first related by contemporaries of Mahomet - and no one certainly thought it blameworthy to put pious verses in the mouth of the Prophet's forefathers, though, according to the Fihrist (p. 92), Ibn Ishaq was duped by others with regard to the poems he quotes.

  • Parliament was prorogued in April 1671, not assembling again till February 1673,and on the 2nd of January 167 2 was announced the " stop of the exchequer," or national bankruptcy, one of the most blameworthy and unscrupulous acts of the reign, by which the payments from the exchequer ceased, and large numbers of persons who had lent to the government were thus ruined.

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