Blameworthy

Definition: Blameworthy

Blameworthy

Adjective

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

Date "blameworthy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Blameworthy

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

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disapprobation	Blameworthy, reprehensible; (guilt); to blame, worthy of blame; answerable, uncommendable, exceptionable, not to be thought of; bad; vicious.
Guilt	Adjective: guilty, to blame, culpable, peccable, in fault, at fault, censurable, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, illaudable; weighed in the balance and found wanting; exceptionable.
Vice	Unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores, indecorous, unseemly, improper; dissolute, profligate, scampish; unworthy; worthless; desertless; disgraceful, recreant; reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable; discreditable, disreputable; Sadistic.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Blameworthy

English words defined with "blameworthy": censured ♦ discreditable ♦ Unculpable. (references)

Etymologies containing "blameworthy": Unculpable. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Moreover, what is called much too harshly, in certain cases, the ingratitude of children, is not always as blameworthy a thing as is supposed.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Blameworthy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Blameworthy" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	19	80,337

Language		Translations for "blameworthy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i fajshëm (culpable), i dënueshëm (chargeable, condemnable, damnatory, objectionable, penal, punishable, reprehensible, violable). (various references)

Arabic		‏مستحق اللوم (reprehensible), ‏إستحق اللوم. (various references)

Bulgarian		укорен (objurgatory, reprehensible), осъдителен (condemnatory, exceptionable, naughty, objectionable, reprehensible). (various references)

Czech		vinný (culpable, guilty, vinous, viny). (various references)

Dutch		afkeurenswaardig (censurable, condemnable, objectionable). (various references)

Esperanto		malaprobinda (censurable, condemnable, objectionable). (various references)

Finnish		moitittava (blamable, open to blame, reprehensible). (various references)

French		blâmable, répréhensible. (various references)

Frisian		net goed te krijen (censurable, condemnable, objectionable), ôf te karren (censurable, condemnable, objectionable). (various references)

German		schuldiges. (various references)

Greek		επιλήψιμοσ, αξιόμεμπτοσ (reprehensible, reproachable). (various references)

Hebrew		אשם (accused, blame, culpable, fault, guilt, guilty, offence, sin, trespass), ראוי ל�'� וי. (various references)

Hungarian		kifogásolható (exceptionable, impugnable, liable to exception, objectionable, reprehensible), elítélendõ (censurable). (various references)

Italian		biasimevole (blameful, censurable, condemnable, objectionable, reprehensible). (various references)

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

Pig Latin		ameworthyblay

Portuguese		reprovável (censurable, condemnable, objectionable), culpável (culpable, guilty, indictee), condenável (damnable, foul, objectionable, reprehensible). (various references)

Romanian		vrednic de dojanã, condamnabil (blamable, blameful, chargeable, condemnable, culpable, damnable, damnably, damnatory, detestable, impeachable, imputable, indictable, reprehensible, wicked). (various references)

Russian		заслуживающий порицания (demeritorious), достойный порицания (censurable, reprehensible). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kriv (awry, bandy, crooked, culpable, curved, guilty, leaning, wry). (various references)

Spanish		reprobable (censurable, condemnable, objectionable), censurable (blamable, blameable, censurable, condemnable, objectionable, reprehensible). (various references)

Swedish		klandervärd (culpable, exceptionable, reprehensible). (various references)

Turkish		sorumlu (accountable, amenable, answerable, curator, ex cathedra, in charge of, keeper, liable, managing, rep, responsible), kabahatli (at fault, culpable, guilty, offender, peccant, to blame), ayıplanacak (regrettable). (various references)

Ukranian		караний (nocent, obnoxious, punishable). (various references)

Vietnamese		đáng trách mắng (blamable, reproachable), đáng khiển trách (blamable, censurable, reprehensible). (various references)

Welsh		beius (culpable, faulty). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	reprehensibilis, vituperabilis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Words rhyming with "blameworthy" (pronounced 'Blame"wor`thy'): Laughworthy, Noteworthy, Painsworthy, Praiseworthy, seaworthy, Thankworthy, trustworthy. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-h-l-m-o-r-t-w-y"
	-3 letters: motherly.
	-4 letters: armhole, beltway, blather, bloater, breathy, bromate, brothel, earthly, halbert, helotry, lambert, lathery, loather, mothery, rathole, rowable, teabowl, temblor, teraohm, thermal, trawley, trembly, wealthy, whortle, wreathy.
	-5 letters: ambery, ambler, armlet, barely, barley, barlow, baryte, bather, bawler, behowl, bertha, betray, beworm, bewray, blamer, bleary, blower, boatel, boater, bolter, borate, boreal, bother, bowery, bowler.
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