blame

[Blame]

Blame is about being responsible for something that's bad or has gone wrong. If you have a headache, you might blame it on the heat, or on not getting enough sleep.

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To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.

Noun
a reproach for some lapse or misdeed; "he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap"

Noun
an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed; "his incrimination was based on my testimony"; "the police laid the blame on on the driver"

Verb
attribute responsibility to; "We blamed the accident on her"; "The tragedy was charged to her inexperience"

Verb
put or pin the blame on

Verb
harass with constant criticism; "Don''t always pick on your little brother"

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Adjective S.
expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he''s a blasted idiot"; "it''s a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I''ll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I''ll do any such thing"; "he''s a damn (or goddam or goddamn

v. t.
To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.

v. t.
To bring reproach upon; to blemish.

v.
An expression of disapprobation fir something deemed to be wrong; imputation of fault; censure.

v.
That which is deserving of censure or disapprobation; culpability; fault; crime; sin.

v.
Hurt; injury.

Blame

Blame, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blamed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Blaming.] [OE. blamen, F. bl'83r, OF. blasmer, fr. L. blasphemare to blaspheme, LL. also to blame, fr. Gr. to speak ill to slander, to blaspheme, fr. evil speaking, perh, for ; injury (fr. to injure) + a saying, fr. to say. Cf. Blaspheme, and see Fame.] 1. To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.

We have none to blame but ourselves.

2. To bring reproach upon; to blemish. [Obs.]

She . . . blamed her noble blood.

To blame, to be blamed, or deserving blame; in fault; as, the conductor was to blame for the accident.

You were to blame, I must be plain with you.

Blame

Blame, n. [OE. blame, fr. F. bl'83me, OF. blasme, fr. bl'83mer, OF. blasmer, to blame. See Blame, v.] 1. An expression of disapprobation fir something deemed to be wrong; imputation of fault; censure.

Let me bear the blame forever.

2. That which is deserving of censure or disapprobation; culpability; fault; crime; sin.

Holy and without blame before him in love.

3. Hurt; injury. [Obs.] Spenser. Syn. -- Censure; reprehension; condemnation; reproach; fault; sin; crime; wrongdoing.

To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.

An expression of disapprobation fir something deemed to be wrong; imputation of fault; censure.

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Usage Examples

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.

A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.

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Other Usage Examples

Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.

ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.

I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.

Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.