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blame
noun as in condemnation
Strongest match
Strong matches
accusation, animadversion, arraignment, attack, attribution, castigation, censure, charge, chiding, complaint, denunciation, depreciation, diatribe, disapprobation, disapproval, disfavor, disparagement, expostulation, impeachment, implication, imputation, incrimination, inculpation, indictment, invective, objurgation, obloquy, opposition, rebuke, recrimination, remonstrance, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reprobation, reproof, repudiation, slur, tirade
Weak match
noun as in responsibility
Strongest matches
accountability, burden, culpability, fault, guilt, liability, onus
Strong matches
Example Sentences
He placed partial blame on prosecutors for not pressing charges in many low-level crimes — a policy that is expected to change next month when Nathan Hochman takes over as L.A.
She wrote that Trump, and not the administration, was to blame for this behavior.
And some of his most destructive work, like accelerating the Iranian nuclear program by pulling out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in 2018, or imposing economic sanctions on Venezuela so severe that they catalyzed a mass migration to the United States that he was able to blame on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, were the equivalent of planting bombs that go off long after you’ve left the room.
You can’t blame the guy for getting excited, though.
Almost everyone I spoke with placed the blame on immigrants, holding the view, as Crusius did, that dark-skinned people from the global south are surging northward to overwhelm white Christians, what’s become known as the “great replacement theory.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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