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

Forgive, dear saint! these blameful eyes that flow With human love, and mourn thy blessedness.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

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

My life is ashamed and broken and blameful—   The broken and blameful, oh, cleanse and gather!

From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by MacDonald, George