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/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbleɪmˌwɚði/
Hyphenation: blame‧worthy

Adjective

blameworthy (comparative more blameworthy, superlative most blameworthy)

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)

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)

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