blameworthy

Example Sentences

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But to be fair, China's not quite as blameworthy as it seems.

From BBC • Sep. 17, 2021

Our obligations to members of our society don’t end just because they do something that is dangerous, even blameworthy.

From Slate • Aug. 3, 2021

An apology, according to the Canadian sociologist Erving Goffman, is "a splitting of the self into a blameworthy part and a part that stands back and sympathizes with the blame giving."

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2021

However, for these, and for the unspecified “harm” they supposedly caused Abbate, McAdams was held to be somehow blameworthy.

From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2017

And immoral conduct is just as little blameworthy as ugliness, stupidity, sickness and other misfortunes which the individual is burdened with by heredity or which a hard fate has imposed on him.

From Morals and the Evolution of Man by Nordau, Max Simon