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Meanings of blamable in English

Deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious.

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Usage of blamable in English
1
His administration in Ireland was unfortunate, and in many respects highly blamable.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
2
If I did, I should be more blamable than he was.
The Doctor's Dilemma
3
Am I therefore blamable for writing a little bit of autobiography?
The Physiology of Taste; Or, Transcendental Gastronomy
4
Poverty is a misfortune; misfortunes are often the result of blamable indiscretion, extravagance, etc.
Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
5
Among my other blamable actions there may now be reckoned disobedience to my father.
The Legacy of Cain
6
Her whole behaviour, which he designs to be exemplary, is equally blamable and ridiculous.
Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Her Life and Letters (1689-1762)
7
Violence and excitement, perhaps, differing altogether from what I felt, are no less blamable.
My Ten Years' Imprisonment
8
Nor think me, my dear Cousin, blamable for refusing him.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8
9
An action blamable in itself is often rendered meritorious by the impulse which inspires it.
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 / Boule de Suif and Other...
10
Thus perished ingloriously one of the least blamable and most unfortunate of the Parthian princes.
The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 6: ...
11
She is sure there is not one blamable act in his whole course of conduct.
Oswald Langdon / or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1...
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I don't wish to appear blamable before the gentleman.
Parisian Points of View
13
Won't you for the sake of me give up this blamable and dangerous practice altogether?'
Wessex Tales
14
One thing blamable in his actions occurred on the election of Julius II to the pontificate.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 / The Later Ren...
15
A blamable profusion this; a fifth as many would be enough; altogether a wilful waste here.
The Life of the Fields
16
But Mrs. Travers was probably not as blamable in her home-making delinquencies as it might appear.
Dorothy Dale: A Girl of To-Day
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