culpable
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- s deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious
culpable negligence
- The financial institutions are as much culpable as others in this subprime crisis.
- If Serbia had been found culpable of a policy of genocide and aggresion, Bosnian political leaders might have received tens of bilions of dollars in war damages.
- The committee found Senators John Glenn of Ohio ($234,000 in Keating contributions) and John McCain of Arizona ($112,000) the least culpable, engaging only in "poor judgment .