(n.) Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yvonne Roberts: Mea culpa is journalism's dry rot You are right, Lucy, the best confessional writing has a universal truth.
(2) When I ask both brothers about the incontrovertible blemishes on the last government's record, the policy of locking up children at Yarl's Wood, say, or the cavernous gap between executive reward and the minimum wage, they offer vague mea culpas.
(3) Journalist Tim Brannigan responded witheringly to her mea culpa.
(4) Hillary Clinton’s mea culpa at the United Nations on Tuesday was supposed to tamp down the scandal over her use of a private email address as secretary of state.
(5) Either he says "mea culpa" and resigns, almost certainly precipitating a general election; or he condemns the ledgers as fabrications, the work of a vengeful Bárcenas angry about taking the fall for a practice that allegedly all were party to.
(6) But in a carefully argued speech, Mr Blair also issued a "mea culpa", saying New Labour began by trying to influence the media too much.
(7) Of course, this rite of passage often resulted in being hoiked to the deputy head's office for much mea culpa-ing in response to the empty threat of a letter home, but that was all part of it.
(8) The only queue to be found was for Nick Clegg’s book -signing, with many of the 300 or so clutching two or three copies of his non mea culpa in their hands.
(9) In a world where we celebrate legally acquired “marginal gains” in high-performance sport but rightly damn those who fall foul of anti-doping rules that fall the other side of the line, Sharapova’s dramatic mea culpa raises some pretty tough questions, not only for the Russian tennis player but also for sport more generally.
(10) News International's humiliating mea culpa on phone hacking has again placed Brooks firmly in her enemies' cross hairs.
(11) Malcolm Turnbull has attempted to arrest the bloodletting inside the Coalition with a full mea culpa on the election campaign and a message to conservatives that it was Tony Abbott who laid the groundwork for Labor’s successful offensive on Medicare .
(12) Sterling himself has already begun his mea culpa media tour but not even Oprah herself could redeem Sterling's image at the moment, not that she would be financially or emotionally motivated to do so if she wants to be part of the new Clippers ownership .
(13) One result, which has had consequences that no one anticipated, was the reckless pledge about tuition fees, the subject of the pre-conference mea culpa by Mr Clegg.
(14) In Opinion, the former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie comes out as a pro-immigration enthusiast, the actor and writer Meera Syal remembers growing up as a daughter of migrants, and the economist Paul Ormerod argues that the left has got it wrong on immigration, while the former home secretary David Blunkett offers a mea culpa of his own.
(15) The Commission for Social Justice, which had been established by the late John Smith to rethink Labour's social and economic policies, tended to use the terms social security and welfare interchangeably (mea culpa as a member of the CSJ for not realising the significance of this at the time).
(16) As for Bissinger, he is now beating his chest about his own pathetic gullibility, in a way that curiously seems to mirror the grand mea culpa that Armstrong will perform on Oprah.
(17) If there is something wrong with building a company from two people to 194,000 people where 600,000 people depend on WPP for their livelihoods then mea culpa.” A small shareholder said questions on pay were pathetic and asked by small-minded people.
(18) In Britain, Caitlin Moran penned a witty mea culpa last year, retracting her negative review of the first season, claiming: "I made a mistake, I didn't get it.
(19) Ed Balls has issued some mea culpas in public and in private is more frank about how Labour failed.
(20) I had expected the book to be a mea culpa , an attempt to win people over, and it is in part.
Culpe
Definition:
(n.) Blameworthiness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of RSD and CULP groups were significantly (p less than 0.05) different from normal but were indistinguishable.
(2) The Culp-DeWeerd vertical flap pyeloplasty and the dismembered Anderson-Hynes technique were modified by means of microsurgical instruments, optical magnification and fine absorbable polyglactine sutures, described in detail and used in 11 and 8 cases, respectively.
(3) The smoothest to roughest surface by groupings were: (SF)-(RPLP)-(CULP, RC)-(RPXP)-(NPF, CPPP, PD)-(NPM).
(4) One of the drawbacks of Cecil-Culp urethroplasty for hypospadias is its failure to place the distal urethral meatus at the tip of the glans when the scrotal flap is detached.
(5) Incorporation of methyl groups from [methyl-(14)C]methionine into DNA of dividing HeLa cells was investigated, essentially by the procedures of Culp, et al.
(6) We collected 68 cases of blind-ending bifid ureter reported in Japan including our own according to the definition of Culp.
(7) The Culp vertical flap pyeloplasty was modified by means of microsurgical instruments, ophthalmologic loupes (X 2, 6) and fine absorbable polyglactine sutures and used in 7 cases in 1984.
(8) In 10 patients the technique of Culp-de Weerd was used.
(9) Ten of the RSD group and seven of the CULP group had four or more abnormal variables and were considered to have a thermoregulatory abnormality.
(10) We report 5 cases of blind-ending ureters according to Culp's criteria.
(11) The seven prophylaxis and polishing pastes were Command Ultrafine Lustre Paste (CULP), Coral Phosphate Prophylaxis Paste (CPPP), NuPro fine (NPF), NuPro medium (NPM), Prophydent (PD), Rembrandt Polishing Paste (RPLP) and Rembrandt Prophylaxis Paste (RPXP).
(12) Bifid ureter with blind-ending branch must fulfill the criterias of Culp.
(13) The temperature response of the hands to mild cold stress (20 degrees C for one minute) has been measured in 20 normal subjects, 20 patients with reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) and 10 patients with chronic upper limb pain (CULP) of uncertain origin.
(14) This paper describes a manoeuvre to overcome this drawback with the help of a small flap from the median raphe of the scrotum at the third and final stage of Cecil-Culp urethroplasty.
(15) It is similar to the method described by Culp & DeWeerd in that a flap is made spirally but different in that UPJ is detached.
(16) These adhesive responses, similar to those on plasma fibronectin (pFN), require the mediation of one or more cell-surface proteins [G. Mugnai and L. A. Culp (1987) Exp.