Vocabulary
Culpable
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
deserving blame.
Urdu meaning
قابل مواخذہ، سزا کا مستجب، قابل گرفت
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- The Human Organ Transplant Authority and its Punjab counterpart are equally culpable.
- Motorcyclists are also culpable.
- FLAWED narratives about women from being weak and vulnerable to provocative and culpable have led to escalating sexual violence against them.
- The state`s inability to keep witnesses safe even when it is cognisant of threats to their life, family and property has led to abysmal conviction rates, allowing the culpable to walk free.
- While any decision is not enforceable, a moral victory will have been won if Israel is held culpable of genocide.
Synonyms
to blame, guilty, at fault, in the wrong, blameworthy, blameable, censurable, reproachable
Antonyms
blameless, innocent
Curator example
“mercy killings are less culpable than ‘ordinary’ murders”
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