culpable
Definition: Guilty
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The Inside of the Cup - By Winston Churchill
...Individuals may be culpable, Mr. Hodder--are culpable ....
Hortense - By S. C. John Abbott, John S. C. Abbott
...Certainly, in the eyes of the established Government we are all culpable of having taken up arms against it ....
Tales of a Traveler - By Washington Irving
...and ten thousand curses on the prince who caused me to be adjudged so rigorously, while so many other Roman princes harbor and protect assassins a thousand times more culpable !...
The count of Monte-Cristo - By Alexandre Dumas
...If you have been culpable, it was imprudence, and this imprudence was legitimised by the orders of your captain ....
Mansfield Park - By Jane Austen, R. Brimley Johnson
...He felt that he ought not to have allowed the marriage; that his daughter 's sentiments had been sufficiently known to him to render him culpable in authorising it; that in so doing he had sacrificed the right to the expedient, and been governed by motives of selfishness and worldly wisdom ....
Silas Marner - By George Eliot, Edward Leeds Gulick
...If there is an angel who records the sorrows of men as well as their sins, he knows how many and deep are the sorrows that spring from false ideas for which no man is culpable ....
Middlemarch - By George Eliot
...A young man for whom two such elders had devoted themselves would indeed be culpable if he threw himself away and made their sacrifices vain . "...
Villette - By Charlotte Bront
...For my part, there was only one plan to be pursued; I must expiate my culpable vehemence, or I must not sleep that night ....
The Ambassadors - By Henry James
...The first branch of their curiosity was inevitably destined, under my culpable delay, to give way to the second; and it 's on the second that, if I may use the expression and you do n't mind my marking the invidious fact, they 've been of late exclusively perched ....
Tom Jones - By Henry Fielding
...She argued, indeed, very learnedly in support of his opinion; and concluded with saying, if Tom had been guilty of any fault, she must confess her own son appeared to be equally culpable; for that she could see no difference between the buyer and the seller; both of whom were alike to be driven out of the Temple ....
Fathers and Sons - By Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Eugene Schuyler
...... `` I am culpable, " she said aloud, " but I could not foresee all that . "...
Dombey and Son - By Charles Dickens, Felix Octavius Carr Darley, John Gilbert
..." There is a point, " said Mrs. Chick, rising, not as if she were going to stop at the floor, but as if she were about to soar up, high, into her native skies, " beyond which endurance becomes ridiculous, if not culpable ....
The American - By Henry James
...When the goal was a disappointment, when the church was meager or the ruin a heap of rubbish, he never protested nor berated his adviser; he looked with an impartial eye upon great monuments and small, made the guide recite his lesson, listened to it religiously, asked if there were nothing else to be seen TrT the ^ neighborhood, and drove back agajr ^ jitjijjaitling-pace ^ It is to be feared that his perception of the difference between the florid and the refined had not reached the stage of con-fidence, and that he might often have been seen--as we have already seen him--gazing with culpable serenity at inferior productions ....