What's the difference between blameworthy and cluck?

Blameworthy


Definition:

  • (a.) Deserving blame; culpable; reprehensible.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is just one of the many blameworthy behaviors that young spring breakers have shown recently in Cancún and that are described as acts of xenophobia and discrimination against Mexicans within their own country, which is (or should be) totally unacceptable.” The story took off.
  • (2) As expected, actors who had a good reputation or were remorseful were seen as more likable, as having better motives, as doing the damage unintentionally, as more sorry and as less blameworthy.
  • (3) In some instances, impaired driving is not considered to be particularly blameworthy, while in other instances, relatively minor variations in the event sequence have pronounced effects on the assignment of responsibility and punishment.
  • (4) But the attitude has changed in the last decade, partly due to a cultural shift that can be seen throughout public life in Britain in the wake of any blameworthy disaster: fulsome apology and promise of "lessons learned".
  • (5) First, alcoholics are morally blameworthy, their condition the result of their own misconduct; such blameworthiness disqualifies alcoholics in unavoidable competition for organs with others who are equally sick but blameless.
  • (6) Examples from the literature on "self-blame" for illness (Tennen, Affleck, & Gershman, 1986) and criminal victimization (Janoff-Bulman, 1979) illustrate insufficient attention to construct validity in the measurement of causality, responsibility, and blameworthiness.
  • (7) It would also dump blame on the blameworthy rather than spread it like facile rhetoric across the piste.
  • (8) Speaking to reporters at a commemoration event during which he appeared to fall asleep , Berlusconi said Mussolini's antisemitic race laws were the most blameworthy initiative of someone "who, in many other ways, by contrast, did well".
  • (9) It’s a complex business, often predicated on who is at the blameworthy end of the transaction.
  • (10) Moylan added that depraved heart murder “is just as blameworthy, and just as worthy of punishment, when the harmful result ensues, as is the express intent to kill itself”.

Cluck


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen.
  • (v. t.) To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
  • (n.) The call of a hen to her chickens.
  • (n.) A click. See 3d Click, 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I cannot tell you how I should deprecate anything leading to the publication of these letters," she clucked to her publisher.
  • (2) Partial separation from chicks causes a significant decline of the clucking rate in hens, this response however does not disappear as in the case of total separation.
  • (3) Britain and America make clucking noises but are just as cynical as the Bahraini royal family itself.
  • (4) Dieticians clucked over quinoa approvingly because it ticked the low-fat box and fitted in with government healthy eating advice to "base your meals on starchy foods".
  • (5) Let me ask the right honourable gentleman again: why is he so chicken when it comes to the Greens?” This inevitably provoked a chorus of clucks from the Labour benches as Miliband said it was Cameron who was running scared.
  • (6) "They might not be bitches at all – they might just have faces that look bitchy," one of the films several narrators clucks sympathetically.
  • (7) Newly hatched domestic chicks learned to prefer the object bearing the same visual characteristics as the environment associated to the initially preferred clucking sound.
  • (8) That's all done centrally…") then, as days turned to weeks, then months, to a succession of customer complaints people who all clucked and expressed sympathy before saying things like: "moving forward…" and telling me that they hadn't a clue when the bank would get down to dealing with my request.
  • (9) Then all chicks were individually exposed to two alternating optical stimulus situations of equal length, each of which was accompanied by one of the clucking sounds.
  • (10) Half a dozen mud and grass-thatched houses circle an ever-changing cast of clucking hens, goats and children.
  • (11) Barring catastrophic medical reports on Susan Boyle, Britain's Got Talent will undoubtedly continue next year because, brutally, 20 million viewers will always trump a few clucking columnists.
  • (12) He had now become a rightwing figure, cluckingly approved of by Conservatives.
  • (13) This helps explain why I found Labour’s opposition over the past five years so woeful, watching as they scrabbled about like so many clucking hens, trying to cobble together a response to Tory austerity.
  • (14) Subsequently, in an exclusively visual choice situation, the chicks chose the stimulus that had been associated with the preferred clucking sound.
  • (15) Jeremy is not going to ban meat A rare vegetarian in politics, Corbyn raised concerned bleats and clucks from the livestock sector when he appointed an even rarer political vegan to the farming brief.
  • (16) In 2010, Komen decided to partner with Kentucky Fried Chicken, sparking a "what the cluck" campaign against it by Breast Cancer Action, an education advocacy group.
  • (17) He laughs almost constantly; a high guttural clucking, punctuated by long pauses and apologies and puffs on a breakfast cigarette.
  • (18) Domestic chicks chose after prenatal exposure between two different clucking sounds by running towards one loudspeaker and settling there.
  • (19) The "intelligent, gentlemanlike" practitioner is a kind of therapist, whose business is humouring his clucking patients.
  • (20) Because of our low turnover, and the fact that people are really into their jobs, $15 an hour wasn’t a big stretch,” Brian Parker, co-founder of Moo Cluck Moo, told NPR .