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Definition of Culpable
1. Adjective. Deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious. "Culpable negligence"
Similar to: Guilty
Derivative terms: Blame, Blame, Blame, Blame, Blame, Blameworthiness, Culpability, Culpableness
Definition of Culpable
1. a. Deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral; criminal.
Definition of Culpable
1. Adjective. meriting condemnation, censure or blame, especially as something wrong, harmful or injurious; blameworthy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Culpable
1. deserving blame or censure [adj] : CULPABLY [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Culpable
Literary usage of Culpable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Before the High Court and Circuit Courts of Justiciary in by Scotland High Court of Justiciary, Alexander Forbes Irvine (1865)
"culpable HOMICIDE — INDICTMENT — RELEVANCY. — Objection sustained to the relevancy
of an Indictment which charged the panel, a druggist's apprentice, ..."
2. The Law of Torts by Melville Madison Bigelow (1908)
"culpable Accident: Negligence. III. Malice. IV. Illegal Acts. V. Damage from Acts
at Peril. In the first three of these divisions there is, it will be seen, ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"744], it was held that a party may not deny a state of things which by his culpable
silence or misrepresentations he has led another to believe existed, ..."
4. Manual of the Law of Scotland by John Hill Burton (1847)
"Killing in a duel is by law murder in all the parties concerned; but juries have
been in the habit of acquitting, or giving a verdict of culpable homicide, ..."
5. A Digest of the Criminal Law (crimes and Punishments) by James Fitzjames Stephen (1887)
"OF culpable NEGLIGENCE AND OF DUTIES TENDING TO THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE. ...
What amount of negligence can be called culpable is a question of degree for ..."
6. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1912)
"... neither wilfully and maliciously nor with culp- culpable . B ' . or table
negligence. Therefore, an act of a State committed ..."
7. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation by George Grote (1862)
"Phokion was here guilty, at the very least, of culpable neglect, and probably of
still more culpable treason, on an occasion seriously injuring both ..."
8. A Treatise on the Law of Negligence by Thomas Gaskell Shearman, Amasa Angell Redfield (1888)
"... person whose act intervenes, is culpable. If such per- '°° Dot him, act is
innocent, it is no defense.1 And, generally speak- ..."
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