blame

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1. accuse, hold [s.o.] accountable or responsible, lay at [s.o.'s] door, point the finger at [5.0.], Sl. pin or stick [s.t.] on [s.o.], Chiefly Scot. wite; (all in reference to culpability) allege, ascribe, attribute, assign, impute, lay.

2. fault, find fault, criticize, censure, reproach, reprove, reprehend, objurgate; berate, disparage, belittle; scold, chide, upbraid, reprimand, take to task, Inf. dress down, Inf. get or jump on.

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3. censure, animadversion, stricture, rebuke, complaint, criticism, reflection, castigation; reproof, admonition, reprehension, reproach, objurgation, chiding; disparagement, belittling; condemnation, disapprobation, disapproval, denunciation, reprobation, obloquy.

4. accusation, charge, indictment, Law. true bill, Law. plaint, Law. complaint; incrimination, crimination, recrimination, denunciation, Scot, and North Eng. threap; implication, inculpation, Chiefly Scot. delation; (all in reference to wrongdoing) imputation, attribution, ascription, assignment, allegation.

5. culpability, blamableness, blameworthiness, cen-surability; responsibility, Inf. rap, Chiefly Scot. wite, guilt, fault, sin, Scot, and North Eng. dirdum.