Sample Sentences for
culpable
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  • You are the culpable one!  (source)
  • The lawyer, the white man who is taking the case for God, says that Absalom Kumalo will plead guilty to culpable homicide, but not to murder, for he had no intention to kill.  (source)
  • You have done nothing which you could have avoided—nothing, certainly, which renders you culpable.  (source)
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  • What is there 'undignified', what is there at all culpable in such an attitude?†  (source)
  • She'd known exactly how I would be acting, and though I might have deserved her anger based on the way I'd acted last night, the fact that she hadn't appeared to care about her own culpability or my feelings gnawed at me for most of the afternoon.  (source)
    culpability = guilt
  • I do not know how without being culpably particular I can give my Reader a more exact notion of the style in which I wished these poems to be written than by informing him that I have at all times endeavoured to look steadily at my subject, consequently, I hope that there is in these Poems little falsehood of description, and that my ideas are expressed in language fitted to their respective importance.†  (source)
  • Roscoe was uneasily aware that he was held culpable in some quarters for Jake's escape.†  (source)
  • He received a torch from an accomplice and lit the mound, which dwarfed him in all its culpability.†  (source)
  • If the lad swore, he wouldn't correct him: nor however culpably he behaved.†  (source)
  • At Sophie Mol's funeral and in the days before Estha was Returned, they saw her swollen eyes, and with the self-centeredness of children, held themselves wholly culpable for her grief.†  (source)
  • Officials began to suspect that Myers was the sole killer and was desperately trying to implicate others to minimize his culpability.†  (source)
  • Still, both of these young people were culpable and must look to themselves now, examine their souls, consider this a matter of conscience.†  (source)
  • He stamped me with a belief in justice, then drenched me in culpability, and I wouldn't wish such torment even on a mosquito.†  (source)
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