The phrase "avoided blame" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing situations where someone successfully evades responsibility or criticism for an action or outcome.
Example: "Despite the project's failure, she managed to present her findings in a way that avoided blame from her superiors."
Alternatives: "escaped criticism" or "eluded responsibility".
A fair number were committed by the security services supposed to investigate them.Somehow, Mr Chávez avoided blame for all this.
He has also avoided blame for economic and budget woes, despite Westchester County Executive Andrew J. Spano, a Democrat, attributing the county's $1 billion budget deficit to Albany.
In each case, Big Four auditors had given their blessing.And although accountants have largely avoided blame for the financial crisis of 2008, at the very least they failed to raise the alarm.
IF Mr. Moynihan didn't have time to settle into the myriad jobs he had before becoming chief executive, it also meant he avoided blame for the losses piling up at Merrill and for the controversial decision to hand out billions in bonuses to Merrill's employees shortly before the deal closed in the beginning of 2009.
But let me single out one group that avoided blame and deserved plenty of it: mainstream economists.
But the trade commission's chairman carefully avoided blaming violent entertainment for violence in society.
How is it that South Africa, after their loss at Trent Bridge, avoided blaming domestic cricket in their own country?
In several public speaking events and articles, he has avoided blaming secularists or liberals for the polarization between secular and religious groups that followed Mr. Mubarak's fall.
Ali Misurati, one of the neighborhood's leaders, said the rebels had been killed by NATO aircraft, but he pointedly avoided blaming the pilots.
Mickelson avoided blaming his performance on fatigue; he said the extra holes could have worked in his favor if he had been playing better.
Even that resolution, which avoided blaming either side for the crisis, was only passed after protracted debates about wording and no threat of enforcement.
