blameworthy
adjUK /ˈbleɪmˌwɜː(ɹ)ði/ · US /ˈbleɪmˌwɚði/
Etymology From Middle English blame worthy, blame-worthy, equivalent to blame + -worthy.
1
Deserving blame or censure; reprehensible.
- Yes, my life has been blameworthy; I confess it. But you know nothing of its temptations.
- And there are ſome diſpoſitions blame-vvorthy in men, vvhich are yet, in a right ſenſe, holily aſcribed unto God; as unchangeableneſs, and irrepentance: […]1648, J[oseph] Hall, chapter XLVI, in Select Thoughts: Or, Choice Helps for a Pious Spirit. […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Brooke, […], published 1654, →OCLC, page 140:
- Derived terms
- blameworthily, blameworthiness, nonblameworthy, unblameworthy