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

"Therefore," went on the queen, "if I forget myself, and half envy a cup of happiness that seems dashed from my lips, do not be over blameful."

From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by Davis, William Stearns

Ruskin wrote that in all his life he had never heard from Turner one unkind or blameful word for others.

From Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People by Bacon, Mary Schell Hoke

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