英:['kʌlpəblɪ]
美:['kʌlpəblɪ]
英:['kʌlpəblɪ]
美:['kʌlpəblɪ]
词根:culpable
adj.culpable 有罪的;该责备的;不周到的;应受处罚的
n.culpability 可责;有过失;有罪
Middle English coupable, from Anglo-French cupable, culpable, from Latin culpabilis, from culpare to blame, from culpa guilt
The first known use of culpable was in the 14th century
cultivationnoun
the act or art of cultivating especially the soil
refinement sense 2
cultivateverb
to prepare land for the raising of crops
to loosen or break up the soil around (growing plants)
to raise or assist the growth of by tilling or by labor and care cultivate oysters
cultivate vegetables
culture entry 2
to improve or develop by careful attention, training, or study : devote time and thought to cultivate the arts
cultivate one's mind
to seek the company and friendship of
cultivateverb
to prepare land for the raising of crops
to loosen or break up the soil around (growing plants)
to raise or assist the growth of by tilling or by labor and care cultivate oysters
cultivate vegetables
culture entry 2
to improve or develop by careful attention, training, or study : devote time and thought to cultivate the arts
cultivate one's mind
to seek the company and friendship of
cultivatedadjective
raised or produced under cultivation
cultivated fruits
having or showing good education and elegant taste, speech, and manners : refined
cultivated speech
cultivateverb
to prepare land for the raising of crops
to loosen or break up the soil around (growing plants)
to raise or assist the growth of by tilling or by labor and care cultivate oysters
cultivate vegetables
culture entry 2
to improve or develop by careful attention, training, or study : devote time and thought to cultivate the arts
cultivate one's mind
to seek the company and friendship of
cultivateverb
to prepare land for the raising of crops
to loosen or break up the soil around (growing plants)
to raise or assist the growth of by tilling or by labor and care cultivate oysters
cultivate vegetables
culture entry 2
to improve or develop by careful attention, training, or study : devote time and thought to cultivate the arts
cultivate one's mind
to seek the company and friendship of
cultigennoun
a cultivated animal or plant (as the kidney bean) of a variety or species for which a wild ancestor is unknown or uncertain
cultnoun
a system of religious worship
enthusiastic but often temporary devotion to a person, idea, or thing
the object of such devotion
a group of persons who belong to or show devotion to a cult
culpritnoun
one accused of or charged with a crime or fault
one guilty of a crime or fault
culpableadjective
deserving blame
1 Captain Barron not dreaming of an encounter, had very culpably neglected to clear his vessel for action, and at once struck his flag.
2 May not the religious culture have been radically defective in its principle or culpably incomplete in its process?
3 "You have culpably neglected or wilfully refused to pay ... this sum and I am not in a position to grant a further adjournment," said Judge Tan Ikram at London's Westminster Magistrates' Court.
4 Capricious, volatile, egomaniacal and, yes, stagy, he was in the end culpably human.
5 The natives have been culpably idle at this and all other work they do, and yet they clamor for more pay, and even speak of ceasing to work unless their pay is increased.
6 Ferrier has already been ordered to complete a 270-hour community payback order by a court after admitting culpably and recklessly exposing the public "to the risk of infection, illness and death".
7 That is, they will be lost, not because they are geographically out of it, but because they are culpably out of it.
8 Now make no mistake; slavery was and is the most culpable and disgusting institution in all of history.
9 Pompeo said the administration would have been “culpably negligent” in its duty to protect the United States if it had not killed him.
10 In her view, the EU, which Romania joined in 2007, is culpably ineffectual against the half-democracies of the former Eastern bloc.
11 He had been culpably blind and Kitty was in danger.
12 They would be seen to have knowingly, indeed culpably, permitted the Russians to illegally assist them.
13 Pharamond was quite as anxious to be rid of the old lady as the younger one could be, but he was far-seeing and cautious, while his coadjutor was culpably impatient.
14 Duff, from Perth, was found guilty of culpably and recklessly endangering the lives of people on a bus by grabbing the steering wheel.
15 Schwitzgebel: I’ve defined a jerk as someone who culpably fails to appreciate the intellectual and emotional perspectives of the people around him.
16 But it is a conservative error, naive or culpably ignorant, to act disappointed that black Americans aren’t attracted to a coalition led by a barely-repentant “birther” who flirts with white supremacists.
17 The doctrine of theologians is that it is a grave sin to delay culpably the Easter Communion for even a day beyond the Paschal Season as prescribed.
18 I have been almost culpably rash and blind,—but I could not look into your beautiful, sad eyes, and doubt that you were worthy of the love that sprang up unbidden in my heart.
19 And they who are culpably out of it are those who know—or might, and therefore ought to, know—that it is their duty to submit to it.
20 In the urgent clash of actions and personalities, almost everyone can be mostly right and crucially, culpably wrong.