CULPABLE
blameworthy, blamable, blameable, blameful, censurable, culpable
(adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious; “blameworthy if not criminal behavior”; “censurable misconduct”; “culpable negligence”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
culpable (comparative more culpable, superlative most culpable)
Meriting condemnation, censure or blame, especially as something wrong, harmful or injurious; blameworthy.
Source: Wiktionary
Cul"pa*ble (kl"p-b'l), a. Etym: [OE. culpable, coulpable, coupable,
F. coupable, formerly also coupable, formerly also coulpable,
culpable, fr. L. culpabilis, fr. culpare to blame, fr. culpa fault.]
1. Deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral; criminal.
State Trials (1413).
If he acts according to the best reason he hath, he is not culpable,
though he be mistaken in his measures. Sharp.
2. Guilty; as, clpable of a crime. [Obs.] Spenser.
– Cul"pa*ble*ness, n.
– Cul"pa*bly, adv.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition