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to blame
adjective as in answerable
Strongest matches
Weak matches
adjective as in at fault
adjective as in culpable
adjective as in responsible
Weak matches
- at fault
- at the helm
- authoritative
- bonded
- bound
- bound to
- carrying the load
- censurable
- chargeable
- compelled
- constrained
- contracted
- decision-making
- devolving on
- duty-bound
- engaged
- executive
- exposed
- fettered
- hampered
- held
- high
- in authority
- in control
- incumbent
- minding the store
- obligated
- obliged
- on the hook
- open
- susceptive
- sworn to
- tied
- under contract
- under obligation
Example Sentences
Bellew, a former world champion at cruiserweight, said the public are to blame for the explosion of Paul's boxing career.
“It is so easy to blame the child,” says 19-year-old Poppy.
Every politician who came to the inquiry had reasons why they weren’t to blame for not doing more during their time in power.
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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