The definition of culpable is in the Cambridge English Dictionary.

Blameworthy, blamable, guilty, culpable mean deserving reproach or punishment.Any degree of reprehensibility is blameworthy and blamable.The conduct was blameworthy.

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From Latin culpabilis, Middle English coupable, from culpable to blame.

"culpable" is a word in the dictionary at www.merriam-webster.com.The article was published on 6 April.2021.

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