blameworthy if not criminal behavior. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a blameworthy administration. From Dictionary.com.
I am not meaning to imply that there was any kind of blameworthy insincerity in this. From Wordnik.com. [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference
The inquiry found Lt.Gen. Awadesh Prakash and Lt.Gen. P.K. Rath 'blameworthy', said an official, not divulging further details. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The prince, as well as the people, were blameworthy. From Wordnik.com. [English Grammar in Familiar Lectures] Reference
It is therefore certainly blameworthy to forsake it. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
That she had given in to temptation was blameworthy. From Wordnik.com. [A Christmas Bride]
Equally blameworthy are the SAP, especially its regional. From Wordnik.com. [VIOLENT INCIDENTS IN CENTRAL Johannesburg\] Reference
In a number of cases we must regard it as blameworthy now. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
They weren't blaming him, but somehow he felt blameworthy. From Wordnik.com. [Up In A Heaval]
Ncube was less blameworthy but should have realised there was. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The livestock industry may be blameworthy elsewhere but not here. From Wordnik.com. [The Material Culture of Pueblo Bonito] Reference
Denounce - to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Lewis: Words DO Matter...] Reference
But then how can I be guilty, blameworthy, for believing in this way?. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
The experiences were annoying, but only his own action seems blameworthy. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
Frowning, he turned back to Ebbanai, who did his best not to look blameworthy. From Wordnik.com. [Running from the Deity]
Yet Hagar was the least blameworthy, and, perhaps, not eventually the greatest sufferer. From Wordnik.com. [Notable Women of Olden Time] Reference
I was about to say that ... it means to "To pronounce publicly to be blameworthy or evil.". From Wordnik.com. [Inane Question Of The Night! And Hillary Says Obama Didn't Denounce Farrakhan Forcefully Enough...] Reference
Which means that intemperance is blameworthy only so far as it is against the public interest. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
The more blameworthy are they who are so very careless in a matter of so essential importance. From Wordnik.com. [De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream] Reference
This error is as blameworthy as its converse: we must take the inside and the outside together. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series] Reference
Certain qualities and natures innate in some men and apparently blameworthy are not so in reality. From Wordnik.com. [A Compilation on Bahá’í Education] Reference
I wasn't President then and I don't know -- I don't say that in a blameworthy sense, I just wasn't. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By The President To Society Of Newspaper Editors] Reference
Therefore it would seem praiseworthy to desire the office of a bishop, and blameworthy to refuse it. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Since my only fault is to cherish him too fondly, should he hate me, he would indeed be blameworthy. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
Assuredly they were blameworthy in failing to notify their absent servants of this projected meeting. From Wordnik.com. [Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477] Reference
Imperfection and ignorance are not, in themselves, blameworthy and should never be classified as sins. From Wordnik.com. [The Ascent of the Soul] Reference
Well then, that excess with respect to pleasures is absence of self-control, and blameworthy, is plain. From Wordnik.com. [Ethics] Reference
Both parties are equally blameworthy -- the only difference is who is in power and taking PhRMA's money. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Hamsher: Left & Right Agree: Health Care Mandates Are the Road to Neofeudalism] Reference
If we are not destroying those people, we are exciting them to destroy each other, which is equally blameworthy. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner] Reference
Moreover since these ladies were not seen of any, except their friends, who was there to count them blameworthy!. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
As for Adrian Edmonson on The One Show, I fully agree that his blatant anti-Thatcher sentiments are entirely blameworthy. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
It is a very laudable effort, and we should be justly accused of fastidiousness did we mention it as in the least blameworthy. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
Yankee brethren, but candidly admit ye are blameworthy for withholding credence to matters which rather border on the marvellous. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 363, March 28, 1829] Reference
Mure was so blameworthy, that, lest he should consider me as a vile traducer, I did myself the honour to make it known to his masters. From Wordnik.com. [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference
Working is good, that proper to a bad, bad: for even the desires for what is noble are praiseworthy, and for what is base blameworthy. From Wordnik.com. [Ethics] Reference
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