imputable

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When a prosecutor offers him a chance to provide extenuating circumstances for his crimes—“Can you affirm that your acts are imputable to external influences of some kind ”—Sylvain is unable to follow the question:

From The New Yorker • May 1, 2017

"What the state of Texas has done in this case is imputable in law to the US and engages the United States' international responsibility," she said.

From BBC • Jul. 8, 2011

And while this tendency to evil is part of our natural condition, and therefore less imputable to us, it nevertheless is true that our actual sins and evil-doing are the work of our deliberate choice.

From The Shepherd Of My Soul by Callan, Charles Jerome

Indifference or neglect imputable to a corrupt intention are sufficient.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various

This younger son of a noble matron recognised even by himself as terrible enjoyed in no immediate or aggressive manner any imputable private heritage or privilege of arrogance.

From The Outcry by James, Henry