blameful, a.
(ˈbleɪmfʊl)
[f. blame + -ful.]
1. Imputing or conveying blame or censure; blaming, fault-finding.
| c 1386 Chaucer Melib. ¶161 He þat is Irous and wroþ, as seith Senek, ne may nat speke but blameful thynges. 1860 Ruskin Mod. Paint. V. ix. xii. §4, I never saw him look an unkind or blameful look; I never knew him let pass..a blameful word spoken by another. |
2. Fully meriting blame; blameworthy; guilty.
| c 1430 Wyclif Esther xvi. 6 (MSS. I. & S.) Malicious men gessynge othere men bi her owen kynde blameful. c 1430 Life St. Katherine (Gibbs MS.) 106 For þe blamefull chaungeablenesse of þe queene. 1594 Shakes. Rich. III, i. ii. 119 Is not the causer of the timelesse deaths..As blamefull as the Executioner. 1738 Glover Leonidas x. 95 To die, uncalled, is blameful. 1838 New Month. Mag. LIV. 374 ‘Now Venus screen us!’ sobb'd the blameful dame. |
Hence ˈblamefully adv., ˈblamefulness.
| c 1400 Apol. Loll. 112 Ne man schuld blamfuly bi idulnes..bring him silf to swilk nede. 1642 Milton Apol. Smect. Wks. 1738 I. 130 Those who..blamefully permitted the old leven to remain. |