Nor are they lessculpable who bring these motives into play, and put this kind of pressure on the weak and dependent.
However, I am too certain of what I assert to look on with the culpable indifference you are pleased to assume, whilst your wife is seeking to supplant me at the chateau; you shall hear of me before long.
Something like it: but he has appeared to me less culpable than I thought.
So culpable in this case did the trustees feel themselves to be, that the secretary was allowed to refund the money he had taken, so long as his private funds lasted, and was then quietly dismissed.
But, as has been said, there may be a culpable perversion of the intellect, so that the man is the author of his own obliquity or defect of vision.
Once the act is done, it matters nothing to morality whether the effect consequent actually ensues or not, provided no new act be elicited thereupon, whether of commission or of culpable omission to prevent.
Contempt is a legitimate sentiment when it has for its object base and culpable actions; it is a bad and blameworthy passion when it bears upon a pretended inferiority, either of birth, or fortune, or talent, and then belongs to false pride.
The more important a matter, and the easier to fulfil, the more is one culpable in failing to fulfil it.
Anger then is an effort of nature in the act of self-defense; it is a fever, and as such it is a fatal and culpable passion, but it is not a vice.
Remorse is a burning pain; and, as the word indicates, the bite that tortures the heart after a culpable action.
As a picture of untrammelled passion, culpable and corrupt, but yet terribly fascinating in her very recklessness and abandon, Miranda is indeed a powerful study.
Yea but, asked Trinquamelle, how do you proceed, my friend, in criminal causes, the culpable and guilty party being taken and seized upon flagrante crimine?
Of the two, certainly the thief from habit is more culpable than the thief from necessity.
I not only charge him with being guilty of a thousand crimes, but I assert that there is not a soldier or a civil servant in India whose culpable acts are not owing to this man's example, connivance, and protection.
He advised that, under certain restrictions, such assemblies were within the law, and that there could be nothing culpable in rifle-matches involving mere trials of skill.
He declaimed against the iniquities of the Executive, the supineness of the Imperial Government, and the culpable indifference of the British Parliament.
Jarvis was especially culpable in this respect, and was not ashamed to write letters to the papers on the subject, in one of which he avowed himself as the author and originator of the outrage.
There were equally culpable but less notorious abuses of power in other branches of the service.
His earnestness and good faith, however, were manifest to all who knew him, and these were sufficient to cover much more culpable weaknesses than any which he had hitherto displayed.
This was a culpable want of the vigilance which the captain had enjoined upon the guards on the previous evening.
Judge for yourself whether I am as culpable as you thought me at first.
He had exposed himself with almost culpable recklessness.
Caesar sent for Divitiacus, a man devoted to the Roman people, and revealed to him the culpable conduct of his brother, which merited an exemplary punishment.
By retaining it, shall I not be as culpable as Welbeck?
There were others, within the compass of a day's journey, who were strangers to the cause of Hadwin's death; but would it not be culpable to take advantage of that ignorance?
But at the Friendly and other islands which we visited, the thefts, so frequently committed by the natives, of what we had brought along with us, may be fairly traced to less culpable motives.
Is it proven, and should it be held, that the Government of the Republic of El Salvador has contributed to the realization of the said political disturbance, through culpable negligence?
Is it proven, and should it be held, that the Government of the Republic of Guatemala has contributed to the realization of the said political disturbance, through culpable negligence?
Nothing culpable ever passed between them; and he always endeavoured to avoid being alone with her.
By this culpable indulgence, and by the part he took in my son's marriage, he has proved that there is neither faith nor honesty in him.
Baxter have thought them culpable for imposing on him an Oath to preserve the Protestant Church of England and to inflict severe penalties on his own Church-fellows?
It poisons culpable joys and the successes that are not legitimate.
So, it is of eternal justice that crime be punished by the unhappiness of the culpable happiness which it has tried to obtain by stealth.
But to resist pride and envy, to combat in the depths of the soul a natural desire legitimate in itself, often culpable in its excesses, to suffer and struggle in silence, is the hardest task of a virtuous man.
The culpable man is still a man; he is not a thing of which we ought to rid ourselves as soon as it becomes injurious, a stone that falls on our heads, that we throw into a gulf that it may wound no more.
Without doubt nothing escapes the eye of conscience, and the culpablesoul cannot escape remorse.
Are, then, beingculpable and being unfortunate the same thing?
Sometimes it will be only a benevolent disposition towards the virtuous agent, and an unfavorable disposition towards the culpable agent; sometimes it will be enthusiasm or indignation.
It is not the pain felt by the victim that demands a corresponding pain; it is violated justice that imposes on the culpable man the expiation of suffering.
If I had your virtues, I should have been the happiest of women; but I allowed myself to be bewildered by a sentiment which I had not before known, and in my culpable frenzy I was guilty before I intended it.
He condemned those engaged in the anatomical examination of the body, as having been guilty of culpable mismanagement.
Mrs Mowbray with almost angry eagerness, 'whatever my errors as a mother have been, and for the rash marriage which I made I own myself culpable in the highest degree, I am sure that I paid the greatest attention to my daughter's education.
I have seen more than one instance where the adjoining house would have been quite safe, but for this culpable neglect.
An inquest was necessary, not merely to ascertain what was already well known, that death had been instantly caused by accident, but to know whetherculpable carelessness of any kind had indirectly led to the sorrowful event.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "culpable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
