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What (who) is culpable - definition

MEASURE OF THE DEGREE TO WHICH AN AGENT, SUCH AS A PERSON, CAN BE HELD MORALLY OR LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR ACTION OR INACTION

Blameworthiness; Culpable

Culpable

·adj Guilty; as, culpable of a crime.

II. Culpable ·adj Deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral; criminal.

culpable

If someone or their conduct is culpable, they are responsible for something wrong or bad that has happened. (FORMAL)

Their decision to do nothing makes them culpable.

...manslaughter resulting from culpable negligence.

ADJ

• culpability

He added there was clear culpability on the part of the government.

N-UNCOUNT

culpable

adj. sufficiently responsible for criminal acts or negligence to be at fault and liable for the conduct. Sometimes culpability rests on whether the person realized the wrongful nature of his/her actions and thus should take the blame.

Wikipedia

Culpability

In criminal law, culpability, or being culpable, is a measure of the degree to which an agent, such as a person, can be held morally or legally responsible for action and inaction. It has been noted that the word, culpability, "ordinarily has normative force, for in nonlegal English, a person is culpable only if he is justly to blame for his conduct". Culpability therefore marks the dividing line between moral evil, like murder, for which someone may be held legally responsible, and a randomly occurring event, like naturally occurring earthquakes or naturally arriving meteorites, for which no human can be held responsible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culpability

Examples of use of culpable

1. He was convicted for negligence not amounting to culpable homicide.

2. How culpable was the Soviet leadership for the Chernobyl disaster?

3. Of course, men are mostly culpable for this trend.

4. But finance companies round the world are just as culpable.

5. "And that surgeon would be culpable." Glasser reported from Washington.