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blameful

How to use blameful in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for blameful.

Editorial note

Ah, the good old "blameful postmortem." Sounds like a toxic culture...

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Quick take

deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious; "blameworthy if not criminal behavior"; "censurable misconduct"; "culpable negligence"

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious; "blameworthy if not criminal behavior"; "censurable misconduct"; "culpable negligence"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for blameful.

Example sentences

1

Ah, the good old "blameful postmortem." Sounds like a toxic culture...

2

The Junior dev does bear a small amount of blame, if you really want to go the blameful route. But figuring out who to blame is toxic.

3

There's no way to guarantee a successful engineering hire, but organizations try to because their culture is so blameful or fearful of conflict that all the incentives are misaligned. I believe most organizations copy the Google, Facebook, etc.

4

I'm admittedly not up to speed on this particular soap opera, but it seems like the real blameful parties here are Gizmodo et al - scraping the bottom of the barrel for raw technical tidbits, and then escalating them into sensationalist "news" narrative rather than performing any sort of responsible interpretation.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use blameful in a sentence?

Ah, the good old "blameful postmortem." Sounds like a toxic culture...

What does blameful mean?

deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious; "blameworthy if not criminal behavior"; "censurable misconduct"; "culpable negligence"

What part of speech is blameful?

blameful is commonly used as adjective.