mindmap root((过错)) blameworthy, blamable acknowledge the censurable quality of the act or the agent but imply nothing about the degree of reprehensibility: conduct adjudged ~ by a military court; an accident for which no one is ~. guilty implies responsibility for or consciousness of crime, sin, or, at least, grave error or misdoing: the defendant was found ~. misdoing泛指坏事 culpable is weaker than guilty and is likely to connote malfeasance or errors of ignorance, omission, or negligence: a clear case of ~ neglect on the part of the landlord.