blameful

Example Sentences

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The crime was producing coverage considered tawdry, overblown and blameful of the victim.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2016

Fate is the conjurer that commands them all to appear, but it is the blameful black magic of repression that sets them free to destroy.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a blameful strength I seiz'd thy hand, to scare thee, as of old Dryads were scared; and calm and icy-cold Thine answer came: "I pray thee, vex me not!"

From A Lover's Litanies by Mackay, Eric

For it was part of his boyish fancy that if he could deliver her asleep and undemonstrative of fear and suffering, he would be less blameful, and she less mindful of her trouble.

From A Waif of the Plains by Harte, Bret

I could not have slept if a king's ransom went with the sleeping; and so I lay fretful, blameful, scolding myself, condoling with myself, vowing the whole problem a plague and a cheat.

From The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea by Pemberton, Max, Sir