(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”.
Praiseworthy
Definition:
(a.) Worthy of praise or applause; commendable; as, praiseworthy action; he was praiseworthy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their high-profile campaigns – to have women on banknotes , challenge online misogyny and banish Page 3 , for example – though necessary and praiseworthy, do not reflect the most pressing needs of the majority of women, black and minority-ethnic women included.
(2) Alternative approaches suggest that praiseworthy efforts to raise immunisation rates in unpromising areas are unrewarded by simple target based assessments.
(3) Is there really such a clear line between his activities that are indisputably praiseworthy – the Prince's Trust, for instance, which provides training for those who might otherwise not find employment – and speaking out about planning and complementary medicine?
(4) As such, it has been variously interpreted as a praiseworthy ideal or an imperative upon society.
(5) The rightwing media are scared of this approach because it breaks out of the politics of cowardice and fear that it would like to keep us all locked into; a politics of cowardice to which many of the leading politicians in the UK are subservient when it comes to migration and Europe (with some notable and praiseworthy exceptions such as Ken Clarke ).
(6) We’ll just have to fuck on the stage While this sort of resistance discourse is praiseworthy, it’s a sorry state of affairs to be in in the first place.
(7) Highs and lows Puzzles are about the only aspect even vaguely praiseworthy – clever design and logical solutions create plenty of satisfying "Aha!"
(8) At any age children are indeed important members of families, but above all they qualify as members of society by providing a glimpse of what could be accomplished by nurturing the early and spontaneous development of their praiseworthy behavior.
(9) Anne Summers Honorary research fellow in history, Birkbeck, University of London • Your article says "nurses will have to spend up to a year helping patients to eat, wash and get dressed"; readers might think that this is something new and praiseworthy.
(10) She’s polite and praiseworthy about Rudd’s management of the global financial crisis, his desire to ensure Australia won a seat on the UN security council, and his advocacy through the G20.