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The word "blameworthy" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone or something that deserves blame or is culpable for a wrongdoing. Example: "The committee found the manager blameworthy for the project's failure due to his negligence." Alternatives include "culpable" or "at fault."
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blameworthy
adjective
Deserving blame or censure; reprehensible.
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However it may be possible to excuse these from blame without accepting that noncompliance with reasons is a necessary condition for blameworthiness; for example, with the weaker condition that a blameworthy act stems from having a character from which certain concerns or motivations are absent (Arpaly 2003).
The third points to the need to move beyond what is by definition a notion of individual moral blameworthiness and to figure out how groups might be understood as morally blameworthy qua groups.
Here is a table from their study: So an objective assessment (yes, the authors did control for several non-party factors that would have skewed the results in favour of the Democrats) seems to belie Republican claims about Democrats being blameworthy for economic troubles afflicting blacks.
Mr Monod was listened to, if not heeded, because he was one of the world's most eminent naturalists, following perhaps the least blameworthy of scientific occupations.
An unforgiving person is, accordingly, morally blameworthy.
The second is that groups, as distinct from their individual members, cannot be understood as morally blameworthy in the sense required by moral responsibility.
For wrongdoing that is excused entirely there is nothing to forgive, since wrongs that are fully excused are not blameworthy or culpable.
By virtue of this reproduction, the individual is, and recognises himself as being, a moral agent — as an agent who is able to act deliberately in ways that are either praiseworthy or blameworthy.
This is judicial corrosion, but not judicial corruption.[16] Because persons who perform corrupt actions (corruptors) intend or foresee — or at least should have foreseen —the corrupting effect their actions would have, these persons typically are blameworthy, but not necessarily so.
For there are cases in which someone knowingly performs a corrupt action but is, say, coerced into so doing, and is therefore not blameworthy.
Frankfurt-type examples (see section 4.2) can be constructed for cases of blameworthy action that seem to suggest that Wolf should give up the requirement of regulative control for blameworthiness.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.
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