What's the difference between blamed and blamer?

Blamed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Blame

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 .

Blamer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who blames.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Language-impaired and the younger normally developing children were predominantly listener-blamers, whereas age-mates were speaker-blamers.
  • (2) High situation blamers were significantly more depressed than low situation blamers; those who blamed others anticipated more severe negative consequences than did those who did not blame others; and high chance blamers tended to experience a worse affective state than low chance blamers.
  • (3) As predicted, women who blamed their pregnancy on their character coped less well than low self-character blamers, but contrary to predictions, self-behavior blame was unrelated to coping.
  • (4) Intercorrelations of the number of attributions made to different targets clearly suggest that there are parent-blamers, society-blamers, and individual-blamers.
  • (5) Subjects were classified as speaker-blamers or listener-blamers on the basis of responses to examiner queries.
  • (6) To a young feminist in 1980s Britain, the most notorious victim-blamers were the judges who blamed female victims of domestic violence for "nagging".
  • (7) Before sending his op-ed to editors at the New York Times, he asked several law students at Yale to read it over because he was nervous of being targeted as a “victim-blamer”.

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