Word Finder - blames

definition

To censure (someone or something); to criticize.

definition

To bring into disrepute.

definition

(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).

example

The arsonist was blamed for the fire.

I think he blames me because he ruined a sweater when he got shot today.

For some reason he blames me—like you and I are in cahoots to get him.

Russian President Vladimir Putin blames terrorists for the bombing, and vows to punish the culprits.

He swigs wine from the bottle and blames booze for his bad behavior.

Maybe he blames her for both not watching the boys and then for saving her child and not his.

His work was commended by Sallust (Jugurtha, 95), who, however, blames him for not speaking out sufficiently.

Such a sage agrees in his thought with God; he no longer blames either God or man; he fails of nothing which he purposes and falls in with no misfortune unprepared; he indulges in neither anger nor envy nor jealousy; he is leaving manhood for godhead, and in his dead body his thoughts are concerned about his fellowship with God.

Krauss blames the Austrian XX.

Krauss blames his divisional commanders, who, he says, were opposed to these tactics, and could not make up their minds to a resolute attempt.

William of Tyre speaks of him as a fine soldier, an able politician, and a good son of the church, and only blames him for partiality to his friends, and a forgetfulness of names and faces, which placed him at a disadvantage and made him too dependent on his immediate intimates.

For some reason he blames me—like you and I are in cahoots to get him.

The settlers are trying to displace the locals from whole swathes of land, and the author blames their failure on a universal apostasy.

He blames former ministers and groups within his own ruling party, alleging corruption and criminality.

The farrier denies it and blames Nigel, revealing to Blake the plot to use the magnetic picklock to rob Barrymore's.

The Sun claims that Ferguson blames Keane for " tearing the club apart " with his criticism of underperforming players.

The burglar partly blames his actions on his uncle, the abettor of his crimes.

His publicist denies rumors that Hasselhoff has been drinking again and blames his erratic behavior on medication prescribed to ease an infection in his hand.

Rogers also told People that he actually has had several rounds of surgery and blames it all on the image-obsessed entertainment business.

Actor Alec Baldwin said he blames the stress of his custody battle with his ex-wife, actress Kim Basinger, for his recent scandalous outburst toward his 11-year-old daughter.

Others say he might just be plain insane and with the tragic year he has had, no one blames him if he is cracking just a little bit.

He blames his accountants, claiming they put him in tax shelters that were later disallowed.

He blames you and says that it's your fault for not being able to be as romantic on the phone as you are on the Internet.

Rather than work on that with his wife, whom he blames for why the marriage has changed, he has turned to two other women to get his needs met.

Everyone in Everwood blames Andy for "killing" Colin and they stop going to his clinic and shun his children.

Meredith finds out she's pregnant, but before she can tell Derek, a disgruntled husband, who blames Derek for his wife's death, comes to the hospital and shoots him.

In the novels, Eric's family dies from fever whereas the HBO series blames the King of Mississippi, Russell Edgington, for murdering Eric's family and taking his father's Viking crown.

He blames his father for the death of his younger brother and for the abuse he and Zak took from their mother.

She was engaged to Zak Adama at the time of his death and blames herself because she passed him through flight training when he should have failed.

After a reference to their descent from Abraham and their sojourn in Egypt, Aristides praises them for their worship of the one God, the Almighty Creator; but blames them as worshipping angels, and observing "sabbaths and new moons, and the unleavened bread, and the great fast, and circumcision, and cleanness of meats."