(v. t.) To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.
(v. t.) To bring reproach upon; to blemish.
(v.) An expression of disapprobation fir something deemed to be wrong; imputation of fault; censure.
(v.) That which is deserving of censure or disapprobation; culpability; fault; crime; sin.
(v.) Hurt; injury.
Example Sentences:
(1) An official inquiry into the Rotherham abuse scandal blamed failings by Rotherham council and South Yorkshire police.
(2) Obiang, blaming foreigners for bringing corruption to his country, told people he needed to run the national treasury to prevent others falling into temptation.
(3) While superheroes like “superman” (21st in SplashData’s 2014 rankings) and “batman” (24th) may be popular choices for passwords, the results if they are cracked could be anything other than super – and users will only have themselves to blame.
(4) The government has blamed a clumsily worded press release for the furore, denying there would be random checks of the public.
(5) He can open doors anywhere and they would at least have someone else to blame.
(6) Doctors have blamed rising levels of type 2 diabetes on the growing number of overweight and obese adults.
(7) It was only up to jurors to decide if the hotel owner, West End Hotel Partners, and former operator, Windsor Capital Group, should share in the blame.
(8) Lisette van Vliet, a senior policy adviser to the Health and Environment Alliance, blamed pressure from the UK and German ministries and industry for delaying public protection from chronic diseases and environmental damage.
(9) The orchestrated round of warnings from the Obama administration did not impress a coterie of senior Republicans who were similarly paraded on the talk shows, blaming the White House for having brought the country to the brink of yet another "manufactured crisis".
(10) And of course, as the articles are shared far and wide across the apparently much-hated web, they become gospel to those who read them and unfortunately become quasi-religious texts to musicians of all stripes who blame the internet for everything that is wrong with their careers.
(11) President Nicolás Maduro has blamed the crisis on the fall in global oil prices, a drought that has hit hydroelectric power generation, and an “economic war” by rightwing businessmen and politicians.
(12) Religious efforts to address the issue have also been complicit in absolving men of their crimes, objectifying women and doing more harm than good with campaigns that blame women for the phenomenon.
(13) Our failure to understand kidney function in the neonate does not justify shifting the blame for unwanted disturbances in fluid and electrolyte balance, metabolic acidosis, and azotemia to a small kidney.
(14) Communal riots are not unique to Gujarat, but the chief ministers of other states have not been blamed when pogroms have erupted on their watch.
(15) If Thatcher's government is in part to blame, then Bill Clinton's is even more so; driven by a desire to let every American own their own home, it was Clinton's decision to create the ill-fated sub-prime mortgage system .
(16) OPM hack: China blamed for massive breach at US federal agency Read more The full scale of the information the attackers accessed remains unknown but could include highly sensitive data such as medical records, employment files and financial details, as well as information on security clearances and more.
(17) We continue to offer customers a great range of beer, lager and cider.” Heineken’s bid to raise prices for its products in supermarkets comes just a few months after it put 6p on a pint in pubs , a decision it blamed on the weak pound.
(18) I can’t stay here anymore.” When his mother calls, he says, he refuses to talk to her, blaming her in part for his predicament.
(19) A sclerotic patriarchal social system is also to blame.
(20) Engie, the owner of Rugeley coal-fired station in Staffordshire, which made the most recent closure announcement earlier this month, blamed low wholesale power prices as much as carbon taxes for its decision .
Irreproachable
Definition:
(a.) Not reproachable; above reproach; not deserving reproach; blameless.
Example Sentences:
(1) If someone wants to be technically irreproachable, he needs to get together most of the existent structures to have a performant material and as much and efficient staff as possible.
(2) Our behaviour has been irreproachable too: we have had only two or three yellow cards in all our games.
(3) In a statement, the ministry said the public finances directorate was examining the tax situation of all government members as a matter of "routine", with the aim of "ensuring that the position of every government member is irreproachable".
(4) About one fifth of the children shows an irreproachable mouth hygiene.
(5) But public understand humility as admirable, listen to the multifaceted strong message.” Last month, Murdoch said Carson was “maybe the one to beat”, calling him “irreproachable on background, achievements, character, vision”.
(6) Back in Rome, the agriculture minister, Mario Catania, declared in irreproachably technocratic fashion that his new deputy would "bring value added".
(7) After decades of political corruption on both right and left, Sarkozy won the last election promising a France that would be morally "irreproachable".
(8) The issue is all the more pressing for Fillon because, despite 35 years in politics including five years as prime minister, he is styling himself as an anti-system candidate, promoting himself as an honest, austere and “irreproachable” antidote to years of corruption scandals on the French right.
(9) In a sign of the anger among Mousavi's supporters, they chanted "the president is committing a crime and the supreme leader is supporting him", highly inflammatory language in a regime where the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, is considered irreproachable.
(10) When he was elected in 2007, Sarkozy had promised an "irreproachable" France, presenting himself as a leader who would clean up corrupt French politics.
(11) "Kate seems to have been selected for her role of princess because she was irreproachable: as painfully thin as anyone could wish, without quirks, without oddities, without the risk of the emergence of character."
(12) Early operation, an irreproachable operating tactic (orthopedic table, ventral decubitus, posterior approach), an immediate stable and solid synthesis and a deferred load bearing (beyond 6 months) should reduce the risk of femoral head necrosis to a minimum.
(13) Irreproachable on background, achievements, character, vision.
(14) To obtain the best results the surgical act must be performed irreproachably and the patient must comply with protection prescriptions.
(15) She was excoriated last year for a speech at the British Museum dealing with the media perception of royal women, in which she described Kate Middleton as "selected for her role of princess because she was irreproachable: as painfully thin as anyone could wish, without quirks, without oddities, without the risk of the emergence of character".
(16) The newest tupes of mechanical prosthetic valves have been shown to be long-lasting and haemodynamically irreproachable.