Word Finder - blame

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Censure.

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Blame came from all directions.

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Culpability for something negative or undesirable.

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The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist.

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Responsibility for something meriting censure.

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They accepted the blame, but it was an accident.

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A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.

I can't really blame him.

You can't blame yourself for your father's death.

How could she blame him?

You can blame your own big mouth.

I think you're the one who is placing the blame on yourself.

She wanted to strike out at someone - anyone, but there was no one to blame for this situation.

But I do not blame any one.

I know I'm mostly to blame for last night, but I'm not here to entertain you.

Not that I blame her.

But you must not think I blame any one.

I don't blame you.

For which you blame me, even though you destroyed her!

Who could blame him?

At least he couldn't blame her for any lack of attention this time.

How could she blame him for being irritable?

Who could blame Valorie for shrinking from Yancey's temper?

We'll just blame it on the rabbit.

Don't blame her; I could see it all over her face.

When I saw you with him in the hospital, I thought you two were an item again and I had only myself to blame.

From other points of view they may perhaps appear open to blame; but it is hoped they will throw light upon our present study.

Avoid the blame game and all the hateful feelings that go with it.

And I don't blame you for wanting to live on the ranch.

She couldn't blame the Indian girl any more than she could blame the saloon girl who ran off with her father.

She was so ill that it was impossible for them to consider in how far she was to blame for what had happened.

His anger was unfounded, but she had to accept some of the blame for his method of approach.

Looking back, she could hardly blame him for being suspicious.

I should blame myself, she said.

And who was to blame for it?

Can't blame her, she said.

The author's own carelessness may be to blame, or, as in the case of Virgil and Lucan, he may not have been allowed to put the finishing touches to his work.

He soon, however, returned to literary interests, moved towards them by the sudden success of Tennyson; and in 1844 he published a small volume of Poems, which was not without individuality, but marred by inequalities of workmanship. It was widely criticized, both in praise and blame; and Patmore, distressed at its reception, bought up the remainder of the edition and caused it to be destroyed.

The news supplied was meagre and inappropriate, and it did not take long for mischievous results to accrue, and the official mind was at first disposed to blame the Press for what was wrong in the " publicity " of the moment.

The suffering Commons now began to blame Beaton.

For this result the European Powers signatories of the Brussels Act of 1892 are to blame for lack of foresight and to some extent of goodwill.

For this unfortunate issue Louis was not without blame; for from the very first, owing to an exaggerated idealism and love of antiquity, he had totally misunderstood the national character of the Greeks and the problems involved in the attempts to govern them by bureaucratic methods.

The actors are never characterized; their actions are simply noted down; there is no praise and no blame.

As regards his execution of the former part of his duties, it is sufficient to say that he preserved his equanimity undisturbed in the darkest hours of peril, and that the strict impartiality of his conduct incurred alternate praise and blame from the fanatics on either side.

He must sometimes praise enemies and blame friends.

How could she blame him for wanting to smile?

I can't really blame the ones that step over the line once in a while.

Or did he do it himself to blame her?

Vinnie was des­perate to place the blame for the missing dough on anyone but himself.

I can't blame you.

I could hardly blame you.

I shouldn't blame my rebellious moods on other people.

He's annoyed that you didn't tell him where you were going and I can't blame him.

Now he was angry, and who could blame him?

We know too little of the facts to allot blame to either of them.

For this he is himself in no small measure to blame.

Even the Protestant churches are not exempt from blame in the matter; a small tomb near the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem has been fixed upon by a number of English enthusiasts as the true " Holy Sepulchre," an identification for which there is nothing to be said.