blameworthy

See also: blame-worthy

English

Etymology

From Middle English blame worthy, blame-worthy, equivalent to blame +‎ -worthy.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbleɪmˌwɜː(ɹ)ði/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbleɪmˌwɚði/
• Hyphenation: blame‧worthy

Adjective

blameworthy (comparative more blameworthy, superlative most blameworthy)

1. Deserving blame or censure; reprehensible.

   Antonym: praiseworthy

   Yes, my life has been blameworthy; I confess it. But you know nothing of its temptations.

   • 1648, J[oseph] Hall, chapter XLVI, in Select Thoughts: Or, Choice Helps for a Pious Spirit. […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Brooke, […], published 1654, →OCLC, page 140:

     And there are ſome diſpoſitions blame-vvorthy in men, vvhich are yet, in a right ſenſe, holily aſcribed unto God; as unchangeableneſs, and irrepentance: […]

Alternative forms

• blame-worthy (obsolete)

Derived terms

• blameworthily
• blameworthiness
• nonblameworthy
• unblameworthy

 

Translations

deserving blame or censure

• Arabic: مَلُوم (malūm)
• Catalan: culpable (ca)
• Dutch: afkeurenswaardig (nl)
• Finnish: moitittava (fi)
• French: blâmable (fr)
• German: verdammenswert (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἐπίψογος (epípsogos)

• Ido: blaminda (io)
• Italian: biasimabile, deprecabile (it), vituperabile (it)
• Korean: 책임이 있는 (chaegimi inneun)
• Latin: accūsābilis, reprehensibilis, vituperābilis
• Macedonian: ви́новен (vínoven)
• Middle English: blame worthy
• Portuguese: culpável
• Romanian: condamnabil (ro) m, de condamnat
• Spanish: culpable (es), reprensible (es), reprehensible (es)
• Swedish: klandervärd (sv)