culpable
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Culpable abstention refers to a failure to perform a required act.
From Reuters • Oct. 12, 2021
Culpable bankers, he says, should go straight to jail.
From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2012
John Terry 4 Culpable, like Upson, for the first goal.
From The Guardian • Jun. 27, 2010
Culpable -is he was, who but must lament that so classic a mind had only assumed so elegant and amiable a semblance as he adopted after the disappointment of his prospects and hopes?
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Cunningham, Peter
Culpable neglect, it may be added, was sometimes shown in the admission of jesting or profane epitaphs.
From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Abbey, Charles J. (Charles John)
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