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blameful

[blaym-fuhl] / ˈbleɪm fəl /


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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

Forgive, dear saint! these blameful eyes that flow With human love, and mourn thy blessedness.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter

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 Sir Owen Seaman

For it was part of his boyish fancy that if he could deliver her asleep and undemonstrative of fear and suffering, he would be less blameful, and she less mindful of her trouble.

From A Waif of the Plains by Bret Harte


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