blame

I (culpability) noun accusal, accusation, blameworthiness, castigation, censurability, censurableness, censure, chargeability, condemnation, crimination, criticism, culpa, culpableness, damnation, decrial, delation, delinquency, denouncement, denunciation, dereliction, deviation from rectitude, disapproval, disparagement, dispraise, excoriation, expostulation, exprobation, fault, guilt, guiltiness, incrimination, inculpation, malfeasance, misconduct, neglect, objurgation, obloquy, opprobrium, peccability, rebuke, remonstrance, reprehensio, reprehension, reproach, reprobation, reproof, vituperatio, wrong associated concepts: culpable negligence, mens rea foreign phrases:

- Culpa caret qui scit sed prohibere non potest. — One is clear of blame who knows, but cannot prevent

II (responsibility) noun accountability, ascription, assignation, assignment, attribution, charge, implication, imputation, liability associated concepts: allocation of blame, blameworthy, culpability, placing the blame III verb abhor, accuse, administer a rebuke, admonish, anathematize, animadvert, arraign, ascribe to, assign to, attribute to, berate, call to account, carp, cast a slur on, castigate, cavil, censure, charge, chastise, chide, cite, complain against, condemn, criminate, criticize, culpare, denounce, deplore, deprecate, depreciate, detract, disapprove, discommend, discountenance, disparage, dispraise, execrate, expostulate, fault, find fault, hold no brief for, hold responsible, hold up to reprobation, impeach, implicate, impugn, impute to, incriminate, inculpate, indict, lodge a complaint, objurgate, rebuke, recriminate, remonstrate, reprehend, reprehendere, reprimand, reproach, reprobate, reprove, revile, show disapproval, upbraid, vilipend, vituperare IV index accuse, arraign, assignation, censure, charge (accusation), charge (accuse), cite (accuse), complain (charge), complain (criticize), conviction (finding of guilt), criticism, criticize (find fault with), culpability, denounce (inform against), denunciation, diatribe, disparagement, fault (responsibility), fault, guilt, impeach, impeachability, impeachment, impute, incriminate, incrimination, inculpation, indict, involve (implicate), obloquy, odium, ostracism, outcry, present (prefer charges), proscribe (denounce), rebuke, reprehend, reprimand (noun), reprimand (verb), reproach (noun), reproach (verb), stricture