culpability
B2CEFR level
60/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The degree to which an offender is morally and legally blameworthy for a wrongful act.
The judge treated his leading role in the conspiracy as raising his culpability well above that of his associates.
Business noun
The state of deserving blame for a wrongful act.
The independent review sought to establish the culpability of individual directors rather than the firm as a whole.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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