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   culpable

   /ˈkʌlpəbl/

   adjective

   • 1. deserving blame: "mercy killings are less culpable than ‘ordinary’ murders"

   Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘deserving punishment’): from Old French coupable, culpable, from Latin culpabilis, from culpare ‘to blame’, from culpa ‘fault, blame’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. culpably adverb

   Scrabble Points: 14

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