blameworthy

Example Sentences

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Ideally, the blameworthy baddie would be someone who can cast these politicians’ own party as the hero.

From Washington Post • Mar. 21, 2022

But to be fair, China's not quite as blameworthy as it seems.

From BBC • Sep. 17, 2021

These stories run a big-haired gamut in terms of individual culpability, but in every case, popular culture found a way to blame the woman, often to excuse a more blameworthy man.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2021

An apology, according to the Canadian sociologist Erving Goffman, is "a splitting of the self into a blameworthy part and a part that stands back and sympathizes with the blame giving."

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2021

To presuppose such aim is blameworthy only when the assumed conceptions or thoughts are arbitrarily adopted, and when a determined attempt is made to force events and actions into conformity with such conceptions.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich