adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
homicide
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Sutherland has denied the culpable homicide of Mr Buckley.
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Yesterday, the Crown accepted a guilty plea to the reduced charge of culpable homicide .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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If people develop smoking-related diseases, are they or the tobacco companies culpable ?
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Sloppy accounting was culpable for the shortfall in revenue.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the same time, the culpable faction is viewed as exempt from organizational control.
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Both individual men and the political movements men have made within the working class are culpable .
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He would immortalize Jack and vindicate himself from his culpable grief by becoming what Jack would have been.
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In that lack of concern, he was no more or less culpable than his predecessors.
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Still, he would have done if it hadn't slipped his mind, and surely the intention made him culpable .
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The oil companies are culpable too.