Word Finder - blamed

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To censure (someone or something); to criticize.

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To bring into disrepute.

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(usually followed by "for") To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame, to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative).

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The arsonist was blamed for the fire.

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God-forsaken.

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Variant of profane damn.

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His damned cards are scattered!

I think he blamed his father for some reason.

More so, he blamed himself.

That illogical, immature holdout still blamed him for winning her love before he told her.

She shouldn't have blamed him last night.

But then out in Colorado when I learned he'd been mur­dered, I still blamed him, in a different way.

He could hardly be blamed if he chose to make her walk home.

He cannot be justly blamed for having been born to rule a despotic monarchy, without even the capacity which would have qualified him to manage a small estate.

In 1289 he went to Montpellier, wrote his Ars veritatis inventiva, and removed to Genoa where he translated this treatise into Arabic. In 1291, after many timorous doubts and hesitations for which he bitterly blamed himself, Lull sailed for Tunis where he publicly preached Christianity for a year; he was finally imprisoned and expelled.

She blamed Jonny for that one.

In his sacred poems he affected to avoid every word with the slightest savour of paganism; and he blamed the poets for their allusions to pagan divinities.

She'd been scared since Hell, if not before, for which he blamed Kris.

Reminiscent of the Civil War fifty years ago, only the PMF is being blamed.

You can't be blamed if I keep doing a little snooping, independent like.

He has also been accused on the same grounds; and if the giver of good wine may be blamed for the guest who gets drunk on it, there is justice in the accusation.

He blamed the king of Germany for trusting his nobles, which he said could only increase their pride and leaning to rebellion.

His course was disapproved; he was recalled and brought before the council of state, which blamed his conduct without giving him a chance to justify himself.

Tribonian has been blamed for the insertions the compilers made in the sentences of the old jurists (the so-called Emblemata Triboniani); but it was a part of Justinian's plan that such insertions should be made, so as to adapt those sentences to the law as settled in the emperor's time.

Critics who have lived in London during the relief of Mafeking have blamed Beethoven for his realism.

The peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748), which ended the war of the Austrian Succession, brought no gains to France in spite of her victories at Fontenoy and Raucoux; and the king was blamed for the diplomatic failure.

On the one hand it was blamed as provocative, on the other as weak.

The times change, and he is not blamed for changing with the times.

For this the British government has been blamed by some.

The consciousness of these great services even reconciled him to the loss of much of his popularity; for there can be no doubt that a large part of the Hungarian nation regarded the Composition of 1867 as a sort of surrender and blamed Deak as the author of it.

Thus, in the 6th century before Christ, Xenophanes of Colophon severely blamed the poets for their unbecoming legends, and boldly called certain myths " the fables of men of old."

Critics have blamed its omission on a " cultural cringe " about Scots.

He blamed an untied shoelace, but the authorities weren't so sure.

We know indeed that he sympathized cordially with the home policy of the government; he had no objection to such monopolies or patents as seemed advantageous to the country, and for this he is certainly not to be blamed.'

She was blamed for her friendship with the comtesse de Polignac, who loved her only as the dispenser of titles and positions; and when weary of this persistent begging for rewards, she was taxed with her preference for foreigners who asked nothing.

For this reference to logic he has been severely blamed, but the precise nature of the debt due to the commonly accepted logical classification is very generally misconceived.

She had blamed him at first for giving them permission to remove her uterus, but it was a life and death decision - one that wasn't easy for him.

At first I blamed the way I thought he died—doing something stupid and irresponsible—swimming at night.

No, he blamed all of Landis for the wrongs of its leader.

The play could not engender enough sympathy for Phillip Gellburg, a mistake which cannot be blamed on the script.

He failed to engender enough sympathy for Phillip Gellburg, a mistake which cannot be blamed on the script.

He saw him as a rival for his mother's affections and blamed him for hurting his mother in the past.

Where bullies were named, these were both boys and girls, although boys were blamed for most of the petty annoyances.

As prodigious climbers, the snakes were blamed for frequent blackouts in the 1980s by shorting across lines and transformers.

The blond bombshell blamed her 'no show ' on her knee, which was operated on in June.

He blamed radical clerics at the center of government.

The recent closure of a number high street outlets by UK electronic goods retailer Dixon's was blamed in part on Internet commerce.

The bear had been blamed for killing dozens of sheep.

However, symptoms sometimes follow unusual exertion or strain, which may be blamed at first.

The decline is blamed mostly on a global glut of cotton.

Salt induced hypertension is blamed for about 13,000 strokes and 70,000 heart attacks in Britain every year half of which are fatal.

Raglan was blamed for issuing so imprecise an order.

Increasing popularity of oversees holidays is partly blamed for an alarming rise in malignant melanoma incidence.

The athlete could not be blamed, but she remains understandably inconsolable.

McDonald's scored a landmark victory when a US judge yesterday dismissed a lawsuit that blamed the fast food chain for causing obesity.

If his influence has been sometimes malign, he can hardly be blamed.

He blamed what he called INS's ` ` institutional incapacity ' ' for the apparent mix-up.