culpatory

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adjective

Expressing blame; censuring.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectiveculpatory (comparative more culpatory, superlative most culpatory)

comparative more culpatory · superlative most culpatory

  1. obsoleteExpressing blame; censuring.

    eloquent culpatory diatribes

    1801, W. Taylor, Monthly Magazine
    1 more example

    adjectives […] commonly used by Latin authors in a culpatory sense

    1762, Horace Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting in England
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