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Blame   /bleɪm/   Listen
Blame

verb
(past & past part. blamed; pres. part. blaming)
1.
Put or pin the blame on.  Synonym: fault.
2.
Harass with constant criticism.  Synonyms: find fault, pick.
3.
Attribute responsibility to.  Synonym: charge.  "The tragedy was charged to her inexperience"
noun
1.
An accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed.  Synonyms: incrimination, inculpation.  "The police laid the blame on the driver"
2.
A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.  Synonym: rap.  "It was a bum rap"
adjective
1.
Expletives used informally as intensifiers.  Synonyms: blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal.  "It's a blamed shame" , "A blame cold winter" , "Not a blessed dime" , "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing" , "He's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool" , "A deuced idiot" , "An infernal nuisance"



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"Blame" Quotes from Famous Books



... is, many persons blame others for what are the consequences of their own faults. Kelly says, "I never saw a Scottish woman who had not this at her ...
— The Proverbs of Scotland • Alexander Hislop

... got the core sticking in her throat. Well, Adam pretended to be innocent, like all the rest of mankind, and said it was not he, but the woman that did it. No, no; it was not his fault, it was the woman who gave it to him. Oh, yes! he was not to blame, no more than any lord of creation. Well, then, there was a curse upon him; but there was a promise to woman that her seed should bruise the head of the serpent with her heel. (Shouts ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage

... of the crime, whereas the innocent man grieves only for the penalty: yet this pain is more intensified by reason of his innocence, in so far as he deems the hurt inflicted to be the more undeserved. Hence it is that even others are more deserving of blame if they do not compassionate him, according to Isa. 57:1: "The just perisheth, and no ...
— Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas

... villain, thou hast stolen both mine office and my name! The one ne'er got me credit, the other mickle blame. 45 If thou hadst been Dromio to-day in my place, Thou wouldst have changed thy face for a name, or thy name for ...
— The Comedy of Errors - The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] • William Shakespeare

... brooding away in the city." The lad's bright, clear eyes looked frankly into the captain's as he continued. "I have been making a fool of myself, Captain. Got into some mischief with a crowd of fellows at school. Of course, I got caught and had to bear the whole blame for the silly joke we had played. The faculty has suspended me for a term. I would have got off with only a reprimand if I would have told the names of the other fellows, but I ...
— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely


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