make sb culpable
Frequency: 5.54.1 per million words
Used to describe an action that causes someone to be responsible.
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Examples (10)
- His refusal to admit his mistake makes him even more culpable in my view.
- Their attempt to hide the evidence made them culpable for obstruction of justice.
- The driver's decision to speed in a school zone made him culpable for the accident.
- Negligence in maintaining the equipment could make the company culpable in the event of a failure.
- Any action that knowingly endangers others will make you morally culpable.
- Does failing to report the crime make a witness culpable in the eyes of the law?
- Providing a false alibi will make her culpable of perjury.
- The flawed chain of command made even junior officers culpable for the strategic errors.
- His repeated lies have made him culpable for the entire company's collapse.
- Ignoring the safety warnings made the entire team culpable for the subsequent disaster.