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Culpability is an English word with synonyms like blameworthiness or guilt. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Culpability in a sentence

Culpability meaning

  1. The degree of one's blameworthiness in the commission of a crime or offence.
  2. The amount of liability for a fault or wrongdoing.

Synonyms of Culpability

blameworthiness culpableness guilt guiltiness

Using Culpability

  • The main meaning on this page is: The degree of one's blameworthiness in the commission of a crime or offence. | The amount of liability for a fault or wrongdoing.
  • Useful related words include: blameworthiness, culpableness, guilt, guiltiness.
  • In the example corpus, culpability often appears in combinations such as: culpability for, of culpability, culpability in.

Context around Culpability

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 24.2 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 12 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Culpability

  • In this selection, "culpability" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, moral, white, escape, offending, anyone and making stand out and add context to how "culpability" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include about his culpability in a and accepted his culpability and had. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "culpability" sits close to words such as acuity, ademola and albans, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with culpability

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Barry Arnett, defending, said Morton accepted his culpability and had a heroin habit previously. (14 words)

The judge said the attacker’s “culpability is high” and there was “planning on your part”. (16 words)

Despite her best attempts to deny culpability, Giudice reportedly has evidence to back up her claim. (16 words)

Prince Andrew, who is no longer a working royal and is not allowed to use his HRH title after he paid an out-of-court settlement to Ms Giuffre while not accepting any culpability, has always denied her claims. (39 words)

Yet Hirohito’s enduring presence on the throne and the revival of conservative elites around him permanently muddied postwar debates about Japan’s culpability, making possible a view that Japan had fought a patriotic and perhaps legitimate war. (38 words)

The defense argued throughout the trial at the Tokyo District Court Tachikawa Branch that the young man was in a state of insanity, making his culpability a key point of contention in the case. (34 words)

Example sentences (20)

At the lower end of culpability was Labuschagne, who went back instead of forward and was in no position to dig out a 99 km/h dart from Jadeja.

Barry Arnett, defending, said Morton accepted his culpability and had a heroin habit previously.

He noted Leifer had high moral culpability, offending over an extended period of time and exploiting a significant power imbalance.

It is wrong thinking, as is the concealment of white culpability for slavery, the flip side of “stop-woke.

Of course, that closure was destroyed in the Krakoa Era, after Madelyne's return, and his culpability in her death at that point, broke him even more.

Prince Andrew, who is no longer a working royal and is not allowed to use his HRH title after he paid an out-of-court settlement to Ms Giuffre while not accepting any culpability, has always denied her claims.

Some people have more power and culpability, but in an honest telling, your antagonist is partly your audience.

The defense argued throughout the trial at the Tokyo District Court Tachikawa Branch that the young man was in a state of insanity, making his culpability a key point of contention in the case.

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The judge said the attacker’s “culpability is high” and there was “planning on your part”.

There should be no sacred cows when it comes to culpability anyone identified as being part of this process must be charged and fined in their personal capacity.

This all seems arbitrary to me and to have no real bearing on culpability or seriousness or proportionality.

Yet Hirohito’s enduring presence on the throne and the revival of conservative elites around him permanently muddied postwar debates about Japan’s culpability, making possible a view that Japan had fought a patriotic and perhaps legitimate war.

A hair relaxer settlement will be complicated because there are many different defendants with different levels of culpability.

Burning the remains was an aggravating feature and showed Lynn’s moral culpability was high, Justice Croucher said.

But either Trump doesn’t know what “exonerated” means or he has spent years trying to deceive the public about his culpability in a variety of serious scandals — or, more likely, both.

Campaigners have told openDemocracy that Shell should not be allowed to escape culpability for the environmental and societal damage it has caused in Nigeria.

Despite her best attempts to deny culpability, Giudice reportedly has evidence to back up her claim.

During the two-day sentencing exercise, there was discussion about MacPhail's learning difficulties, his autism and his culpability.

Graves wrote that Ball “downplayed his culpability for his conduct on multiple occasions” and “has shown a troubling inability or unwillingness to appreciate the seriousness and wrongfulness” of his conduct.

He added that the leader’s desperation was glaring but that it was also reckless considering that post mortem had cleared the Police of any culpability.

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Common combinations with culpability

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "culpability" in a sentence?
An example: "At the lower end of culpability was Labuschagne, who went back instead of forward and was in no position to dig out a 99 km/h dart from Jadeja." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "culpability" from authentic English texts.
What does "culpability" mean?
Culpability means: The degree of one's blameworthiness in the commission of a crime or offence.
What are synonyms of "culpability"?
Common synonyms of "culpability" include: blameworthiness, culpableness, guilt, guiltiness.
How many example sentences with "culpability" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "culpability", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.