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blameworthiness

NOUN
accountability
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Under Lenin and Stalin, blameworthiness didn’t require bad intention.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

This is chiefly true when making judgments involving the blameworthiness of actions in terms of intent versus outcome.

From Golf Digest ● Oct. 1, 2018

Regardless of her blameworthiness for the website’s poor rollout or the credit she deserves for meeting that crucial enrollment goal, she is the face of the initial disaster.

From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2014

The more we learn, the more the seemingly simple concept of blameworthiness becomes complicated, and the more the foundations of our legal system are strained.”

From Slate ● May 11, 2013

So timid was Charlotte in Somerset's presence, that her timidity at this juncture amounted to blameworthiness.

From A Laodicean : a Story of To-day by Thomas Hardy


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