Adjective : a blameworthy administration. From Dictionary.com.
But the commission said it would not report on blameworthiness. From Wordnik.com. [Contents] Reference
It really does not matter that there was blameworthiness aplenty to spread around. From Wordnik.com. [8:15am] Reference
This is the proposal that rejects Mill's move of tying moral wrongness to blameworthiness. From Wordnik.com. [Rule Consequentialism] Reference
With this assumption in hand, we can interpret Mill as tying wrongness tightly to blameworthiness. From Wordnik.com. [Rule Consequentialism] Reference
Or for that matter, a way of ascribing blameworthiness to people who advocate for tolerance of different views. From Wordnik.com. [What the future holds for Catholic Women…but don’t get too excited] Reference
Blame is not a zero-sum game — she can be at fault without subtracting even one iota from his blameworthiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Tort Liability:] Reference
Again and again it comes back to seeing Jeff Quon as the primary recipient of blameworthiness in this little melodrama. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Communicating With Those Who Have No Privacy Rights: The Hard Question in City of Ontario v. Quon] Reference
In most crimes youth is regarded as a factor which is taken into consideration for diminished responsibility or blameworthiness. From Wordnik.com. [Children of Resistence] Reference
Could she preserve the central feature of her Reason View without requiring regulative control as a condition of blameworthiness?. From Wordnik.com. [Compatibilism] Reference
At the very least, male and female judges view the dangerousness, accomplice status, or blameworthiness of female offenders differently. From Wordnik.com. [Prison Sentencing Study: Whites, Women, Non-Poor, and U.S. Citizens Are Given Lighter Sentences] Reference
These results are hard to square with the suggestion that unobserved accomplice status or blameworthiness is behind the gender disparity. From Wordnik.com. [Prison Sentencing Study: Whites, Women, Non-Poor, and U.S. Citizens Are Given Lighter Sentences] Reference
However, paternalistic views about the dangerousness or blameworthiness of female offenders may well be most evident in the case of serious crimes. From Wordnik.com. [Prison Sentencing Study: Whites, Women, Non-Poor, and U.S. Citizens Are Given Lighter Sentences] Reference
Your children may start to act as troubled as you worried they would because of your divorce, thereby furnishing “proof” of your blameworthiness. From Wordnik.com. [You’re a Better Parent Than You Think!] Reference
Feminists might apply this model more generally to explain the relevance of women's circumstances to their responsibility or blameworthiness for acting immorally. From Wordnik.com. [Feminist Moral Psychology] Reference
Aquinas also supports the common view that at least some coercion affects the coercee's responsibility or blameworthiness for what he does as a result of coercion. From Wordnik.com. [Coercion] Reference
Critics of collective responsibility pay somewhat less attention to the nature of collective moral blameworthiness than they do to the nature of collective actions. From Wordnik.com. [Collective Responsibility] Reference
It became impossible therefore to identify blameworthiness for the misreportings. From Wordnik.com. [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference
This sounds like the blameworthiness of the crime is tied to the carelessness of the victim. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Campus] Reference
He kept a dossier in his office labelled "immaturity and blameworthiness of the Italian people". From Wordnik.com. [Mac Uaid] Reference
When he met Zada he kept trying to be patient and forgiving with her, in spite of her blameworthiness. From Wordnik.com. [We Can't Have Everything] Reference
A consistent phrenologist can have no proper ideas of moral obligation, of moral guilt, blameworthiness, and retribution. From Wordnik.com. [Power From On High] Reference
I agree with the Crown that it did not reflect either the gravity of the offence or Mr. Hirnschall's moral blameworthiness. From Wordnik.com. [Progressive Bloggers] Reference
Again, we get a similar reversal when examining the blameworthiness of individuals who took out loans they could not afford. From Wordnik.com. [Israelated - English Israel blogs] Reference
A short reflection told him that this proved nothing, a natural delicacy being as ample a reason for silence as any degree of blameworthiness. From Wordnik.com. [Jude the Obscure] Reference
Whoso uttered a whisper of incredulity, general or as to the blameworthiness of any whom Parris called guilty, was instantly indicted with them. From Wordnik.com. [History of the United States, Volume 1 (of 6)] Reference
They believe that masking the statistics of deaths is a way to dilute the level of degeneracy within their ranks and the state's blameworthiness. From Wordnik.com. [AllAfrica News: Latest] Reference
I do not argue that more sensitive offenders should receive shorter prison sentences than less sensitive offenders who commit crimes of equal blameworthiness. From Wordnik.com. [Sentencing Law and Policy] Reference
But of her own feelings she could not speak -- the awful anxiety and remorse; the sense of responsibility and blameworthiness that filled her; her remembrance of. From Wordnik.com. [Kitty Trenire] Reference
There’s no reason to think these people are similar in terms of degree of moral blameworthiness, likelihood of recividism, or danger to children in the community. From Wordnik.com. [Innocent Man Mistaken For Registered Offender] Reference
It also affected his blameworthiness. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Does it mean anything other than blameworthiness?). From Wordnik.com. [About.com Catholicism] Reference
“fault” no moral blameworthiness, an. From Wordnik.com. [Legal Positivism] Reference
'blameworthiness.'. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill] Reference
"blameworthiness.". From Wordnik.com. [Reporters Committee News] Reference
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