noun
definition
The degree of one's blameworthiness in the commission of a crime or offence.
Examples of culpability in a Sentence
Might there be more to Howie's culpability in his sister's disappearance?
Paris falsified records to hide his own culpability, was found out and court-martialed.
Rumors continued to be rampant about his alleged culpability in Billy Langstrom's death.
Jenna returns to school around the same time, confronting the four friends with their culpability at every corner.
Our need for secrecy, all five of us, extended far beyond personal culpability.
If the skeleton dated back to the 1960's, as they were now beginning to believe, all the current players—the four Dawkinses, stepmother Jenny Radisson, and even Fitzgerald—would have barely been born, thereby excusing them from any direct culpability.
It appeared, excepting Dean, the line was forming in descending order of potential culpability.
But the culpability of the west does not end with the lateness or the woeful inadequacy of its response to the crisis.
Dean's spoon-fed explanation to the two, served between naps and medical visits, satisfied officialdom enough to free Dean from any hint of culpability.
It has been necessary to cite these heads of the breve because the apologists of the Society allege that no motive influenced the pope save the desire of peace at any price, and that he did not believe in the culpability of the fathers.