adj
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deserving blame ;guilty
비난받을 만한 ; 유죄의
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A person who is culpable (a culprit) is one who can be blamed for doing something.
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The accountant's failure to spot the errors made him culpable in the tax-fraud case.
틀린 부분을 찾아내지 못함으로써 회계사는 세금포탈에 연루된 것으로 의심받았다.
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We all felt culpable when the homeless old man died in the door-way of our apartment building.
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To decide that a person is not culpable after all is to exculpate that person. Lou's confession didn't exculpate Bob, because one of the things that Lou confessed was that Bob had helped him to do it. The opposite of exculpate is to inculpate. To inculpate is to accuse someone of something.