What's the difference between culpable and inculpable?
Culpable
Definition:
(a.) Deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral; criminal.
(a.) Guilty; as, culpable of a crime.
Example Sentences:
(1) But these qualities in Bush were all too apparent in last night's interview, particularly in the way he would dance away from any acknowledgement of culpability by saying that he could "understand why people feel that way", whether it be about what he euphemistically called a "lack of a crisp response" to Hurricaine Katrina, or anger at the bank bailouts.
(2) A key issue addressed is patient culpability in compliance.
(3) Advocates for persons with mental retardation have argued that because their disability reduces culpability in capital offenses, the death penalty is always inappropriate.
(4) A most attacking left-back, the Dutchman has been culpable for the concession of quite a few goals during his distinctly chequered time on Wearside but, equally, scores his fair share.
(5) I think the AFP definitely need to give a more forthcoming explanation and they have to accept some culpability for what occurred.
(6) Culpability for any alleged crimes would almost certainly stop at the doorstep of the small circle of people who surround the Rajapaksa family.
(7) An alcohol provocation test is described wherein a 20% solution of alcohol was injected intravenously in 57 subjects with three major goals: 1) To determine criminal culpability.
(8) Both were culpable: Haye of pushing an emotional man too far, Chisora of resorting again to the sort of physical problem-solving referred to by judge Purdy.
(9) There's one other issue highlighted by this disparate reaction: the question of agency and culpability.
(10) Aberdeen city council, NHS Grampian and Police Scotland said they would seek an independent chair to lead the exercise, a day after a trial concluded that Bailey’s 16-year-old killer was guilty of culpable homicide .
(11) The Egyptian military obviously thinks so – but then, this deflects attention from its own culpable role under Mubarak.
(12) He has previously sparked controversy by questioning the existence of "homophobia", suggesting that some people find same-sex relationships "distasteful if not viscerally repugnant" and arguing that there are "different degrees of culpability" in rape cases.
(13) However, the Barcelona coach, Jordi Roura, said the players had to accept the culpability.
(14) In the case of a child's death in the family bath tub or the backyard swimming pool, the extra society sanctions of culpability and accusation further intensified the likelihood of the normal grief process being transformed into a pathological variant.
(15) This is unfortunate news for him and his family, and it’s a blow to China’s democracy movement, as so many people have placed hope in him, and rightfully so.” 'Your Lifelong Prisoner' – Liu Xiaobo's poem from prison Read more Sophie Richardson, the China director at Human Rights Watch, said: “The Chinese government’s culpability for wrongfully imprisoning Liu Xiaobo is deepened by the fact that they released him only when he became gravely ill.” A foreign ministry spokesman was “not aware of the situation” when asked about Liu’s case at a daily press briefing.
(16) Culpability rests with the irrigation authority and Government health services.
(17) In that regard we are culpable and must reflect on our government’s actions.
(18) Yet Labour ministers are not the only culpable parties.
(19) For the purpose of assessing possible opiate dependence (question of culpability) toxicological tests (gas chromatography; mass-spectrometry) were performed on cuttings of hair of a 30-year-old man who had within a short period committed several punishable offences 8 months previously.
(20) The Interview will become a global must-see and their Soviet-style control-freak instincts will look silly and culpable.
Inculpable
Definition:
(a.) Faultless; blameless; innocent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Current emphasis on quality assurance dictates reconsideration of the literature on reproducibility of histopathologic taxonomy, which has tended to inculpate pathologists as sources of variability.
(2) They didn't consider it material to their findings, but rather one that might unfairly inculpate the captain.
(3) Motortown created a furore for the way it inculpated audiences for Britain's part in the war in Iraq.
(4) The London mayor, and potential future Tory leader, Boris Johnson, writes in the Telegraph : If there is new and better evidence that inculpates Assad, I see no reason why the government should not lay a new motion before Parliament, inviting British participation.