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Blameable

Definition: Blameable

Blameable

Adjective

1. Deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious; "blameworthy if not criminal behavior"; "censurable misconduct"; "culpable negligence".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "blameable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

"Blameable" is a common misspelling or typo for: blamable.


Synonyms: Blameable

Synonyms: blamable (adj), blameful (adj), blameworthy (adj), censurable (adj), culpable (adj). (additional references)

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Use in Literature: Blameable

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Blameable

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  blameable

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Blameable

Language Translations for "blameable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Manx

  

loghtagh (bad, bad incorrect, blameworthy, culpable, defaulter, defective, delinquent, fault-finding, faulty, illgotten, iniquitous, offending, vicious), foiljagh (blameworthy, culpable, offender). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ameableblay

   

Spanish

  

culpable (blamable, blameworthy, causer, culpable, culprit, enthralling, guilty, offender, peccant), censurable (blamable, blameworthy, censurable, condemnable, objectionable, reprehensible). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Blameable

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-e-e-l-l-m"

-1 letter: blamable.

-3 letters: amebae, mallee.

-4 letters: abeam, abele, allee, amble, ameba, babel, belle, blame, label, llama.

-5 letters: abba, abbe, able, alae, alba, alee, alma, alme, baal, baba, babe, bale, ball, balm, beam, bell, bema, blab, blae, blam, bleb, lama, lamb, lame, leal, mabe, male, mall, meal, mell.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-b-e-e-l-l-m"
 

+4 letters: metabolizable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Blameable


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 6C 61 6D 65 61 62 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .-..    .-    --    .    .-    -...    .-..    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01101100 01100001 01101101 01100101 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#108 &#97 &#109 &#101 &#97 &#98 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 006C 0061 006D 0065 0061 0062 006C 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

367867797167687871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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