Meanings
comparative more blameable · superlative most blameable
- alternativeAlternative spelling of blamable.
I say, I have never much distinguished thee, not because I did not see that in thee which I might well have praised, but because I saw something blameable, which such praises might have made worse.
1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 332
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivedeserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious
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Origin
- Middle Englishblameable
- Englishblameable
From Middle English blameable, equivalent to blame + -able.
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