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

But here, while I can hardly call you blameful For smoking "free" cigars with so much zest, Frankly I feel ’twas little short of shameful To go and pinch the rest.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 27, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

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

"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