adj
Liable to be accused or censured; chargeable with a crime or breach; blamable
n
(law, or general usage, chiefly in the plural) A factor that increases the culpability or deleterious consequences of a wrongful act.
adj
at fault (in adjectival contexts)
v
(transitive) To make guilty; cause to sin.
n
Responsibility for something meriting censure.
adj
That imputes or conveys blame
adj
Deserving of condemnation.
adj
Producing or leading to crime.
adj
Meriting condemnation, censure or blame, especially as something wrong, harmful or injurious; blameworthy, guilty.
adj
Expressing blame; censuring.
n
(obsolete) blameworthiness
n
The concept that offenders should be punished according to how blameworthy they are.
n
(rare, archaic or poetic) Breach of honour, faith, or loyalty; disloyalty.
n
Responsibility for wrongdoing.
adj
(by extension) Truly, indeed, verily responsible for having done something.
n
(nonce word) Obedience; submission to authority.
adj
Causing, showing, or proving that one is guilty of wrongdoing.
adj
that causes someone to be blamed for something
adj
(UK, historical) Subject to a judicial punishment that deprived the infamous person of certain rights; this included a prohibition against holding public office, exercising the franchise, receiving a public pension, serving on a jury, or giving testimony in a court of law.
adj
Alternative form of mulctuary [Imposing a pecuniary penalty; consisting of, or paid as, a fine.]
adj
Responsible; to be blamed.
adj
Of or pertaining to perjury.
adj
Obsolete form of piacular. [Requiring atonement or reparation: wicked, sinful, bad.]
n
The rewarding of virtue, and the punishment of vice, especially in an ironic manner.
n
(Scotland, law, historical) An old form of action to prove a witness to be perjured or biased.
n
(psychology) The punishment of somebody who has committed a certain act, in order to dissuade others from doing the same.
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