culpable
C1CEFR level
60/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Law adjective
Deserving blame; legally responsible for a fault.
The report found the contractor culpable for the collapse.
Business adjective
Deserving blame for a wrongful act or omission.
The court found the compliance officer culpable for ignoring repeated red flags.
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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