blameful

Example Sentences

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The crime was producing coverage considered tawdry, overblown and blameful of the victim.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2016

Fate is the conjurer that commands them all to appear, but it is the blameful black magic of repression that sets them free to destroy.

From Time Magazine Archive

But here, while I can hardly call you blameful For smoking "free" cigars with so much zest, Frankly I feel ’twas little short of shameful To go and pinch the rest.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 27, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

In a blameful strength I seiz'd thy hand, to scare thee, as of old Dryads were scared; and calm and icy-cold Thine answer came: "I pray thee, vex me not!"

From A Lover's Litanies by Mackay, Eric

My life is ashamed and broken and blameful—   The broken and blameful, oh, cleanse and gather!

From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by MacDonald, George