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Meanings of blameable in English

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

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Usage of blameable in English
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The most blameable act of his life was the execution of Charles.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
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Nevertheless, he was certainly blameable for having chosen such an unwholesome situation.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. / Continued fro...
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That meant, 'My turning aside to you originally was the blameable thing.'
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 7
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It was a drunken quarrel, where one was as blameable as the other.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 47: November 1666
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No quality, it is allowed, is absolutely either blameable or praiseworthy.
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
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He will disavow an action that appears to him blameable, but not criminal.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
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No; the transaction was more blameable even than that.
Agatha's Husband: A Novel
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Neither can I say that I am convinced it is blameable except in its excess.
The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
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The poorest people, in this instance, imitate their superiors with a blameable disregard to consequences.
Observations on the Mussulmauns of India / Descriptive of Their ...
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But still, if his design at first was blameable, his consistency and firmness were praiseworthy.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
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But is the Frank's perfidy as blameable as ours?
The Roman and the Teuton / A Series of Lectures delivered before...
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Instead of blameable, they would appear only mysterious.
Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
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At lunch the doctor continued his theme, and represented my conduct as most blameable and improper.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843
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Do you now think him blameable, O Æsop?
The Glory of English Prose / Letters to My Grandson
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Now this language, according to the sense in which we use it, is either blameable or innocent.
The Christian Life: Its Course, Its Hindrances, and Its Helps
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This was the first departure from sound principles, and one for which Law is not justly blameable.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1
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