culpably
- r in a manner or to a degree deserving blame or censure
- Although Major Putnam was incarcerated for military reasons in Libby Prison, he was never vulgarly or culpably "in jail.
- Finally, when Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire called 1966 "the year of the big goof," charging that the Administration had underestimated Viet Nam spending and was culpably .
- He makes Editor Thornton, in demanding that Gardner be fired, revert to stereotyped white brutality, and he makes President Rogers seem culpably weak for giving in.