blameworthiness

Example Sentences

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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

Especially if it’s an object or system with complex behaviors that are difficult to understand in purely mechanistic terms, we’ll attribute pretty much any entity with a range of humanlike properties including praiseworthiness and blameworthiness.

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2013

If he has them, he will not, as a general rule, incur liability without blameworthiness.

From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell