culpable

As writers of travels among barbarous communities are generally very diffuse on these subjects, he deems it right to advert to what may be considered a culpable omission.

The intentions of the first may be upright, as they may on the contrary be culpable. The views of the last cannot be upright, and must be culpable.

She argued, indeed, very learnedly in support of his opinion; and concluded with saying, if Tom had been guilty of any fault, she must confess her own son appeared to be equally culpable; for that she could see no difference between the buyer and the seller; both of whom were alike to be driven out of the temple.

But for the third degree, which is simulation, and false profession; that I hold more culpable, and less politic; except it be in great and rare matters.

The culpable threw himself at the Emperor, and said--

perhaps you have done your duty as a soldier, but as a gentleman, I say that you are very culpable."

'"What culpable carelessness in her brother!" exclaimed Mr.

The wars of these two last-mentioned nations have in a great measure grown out of commercial considerations, -- the desire of supplanting and the fear of being supplanted, either in particular branches of traffic or in the general advantages of trade and navigation, and sometimes even the more culpable desire of sharing in the commerce of other nations without their consent.

"Monseigneur, no more such words, they bewilder me; I have been culpable in trying to serve you, without calculating the extent of what I was doing.

This distinction, though by no means a subtle one, was yet too subtle for Mr Clare the elder, and he went on with the story he had been about to relate; which was that after the death of the senior so-called d'Urberville the young man developed the most culpable passions, though he had a blind mother, whose condition should have made him know better.

At least, the unhappy wretch upon whom your anger falls receives from you, however culpable he may be, his daily bread though moistened by his tears.

Brooke was really culpable; he ought to have hindered it.