Antonyms for blame
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1. blame

   To condemn is to pass judicial sentence or render judgment or decision against. We may censure silently; we condemn ordinarily by open and formal utterance. Condemn is more final than blame or censure; a condemned criminal has had his trial; a condemned building can not stand; a condemned ship can not sail. A person is convicted when his guilt is made clearly manifest to others; in somewhat archaic use, a person is said to be convicted when guilt is brought clearly home to his own conscience (convict in this sense being allied with convince, which see under PERSUADE); in legal usage one is said to be convicted only by the verdict of a jury. In stating the penalty of an offense, the legal word sentence is now more common than condemn; as, he was sentenced to imprisonment; but it is good usage to say, he was condemned to imprisonment. To denounce is to make public or official declaration against, especially in a violent and threatening manner.

   From the pulpits in the northern States Burr was denounced as an assassin.

   Coffin Building the Nation ch. 10, p. 137. [Harper & Bros. '83.]

   To doom is to condemn solemnly and consign to evil or destruction or to predetermine to an evil destiny; an inferior race in presence of a superior is doomed to subjugation or extinction. Compare ARRAIGN; REPROVE.

   Antonyms:
   absolve, acquit, applaud, approve, exonerate, justify, pardon, pardon, praise

   Synonyms:
   censure, condemn, convict, denounce, doom, reprobate, reprove, sentence

   Preposition:
   The bandit was condemned to death for his crime.

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1. blame

   Antonyms:
   acquit, exculpate, exonerate, encourage, praise, approve

   Synonyms:
   censure, chide, rebuke, reproach, vituperate, dispraise, disapprove, condemn, reprehend, reprobate, reprove

Matched Categories

1. • Accusation
   • Charge
   • Criticize

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1. incrimination, inculpation, blamenoun

   an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed

   "his incrimination was based on my testimony"; "the police laid the blame on the driver"

   Antonyms:
   blessed, blest, justify, absolve, free

   Synonyms:
   rap, inculpation, incrimination

2. blame, rapadjective

   a reproach for some lapse or misdeed

   "he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap"

   Antonyms:
   blessed, blest, justify, absolve, free

   Synonyms:
   whack, knock, incrimination, hip-hop, strike, rap music, pat, belt, whang, rap, inculpation, tap

3. blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernalverb

   expletives used informally as intensifiers

   "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an infernal nuisance"

   Antonyms:
   blest, blessed, justify, free, absolve

   Synonyms:
   blasted, unsaved, doomed, damned, diabolic, unredeemed, blest, deuced, hellish, satanic, blamed, damn, goddam, fiendish, goddamned, unholy, darned, beatified, demonic, diabolical, goddamn, cursed, infernal, blessed

4. blame, faultverb

   put or pin the blame on

   Antonyms:
   blest, blessed, justify, absolve, free

   Synonyms:
   pick, fault, find fault, charge

5. blame, find fault, pickverb

   harass with constant criticism

   "Don't always pick on your little brother"

   Antonyms:
   blessed, blest, free, justify, absolve

   Synonyms:
   charge, pick, peck, cull, clean, beak, fault, nibble, plunk, break up, pluck, find fault, foot, piece

6. blame, chargeverb

   attribute responsibility to

   "We blamed the accident on her"; "The tragedy was charged to her inexperience"

   Antonyms:
   blest, blessed, free, justify, absolve

   Synonyms:
   saddle, institutionalize, buck, fault, shoot down, commove, turn on, shoot, appoint, pick, agitate, rouse, consign, accuse, point, institutionalise, file, bill, find fault, tear, level, burden, charge, load, bear down, commit, charge up, excite, lodge, send

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1. blamenoun

   Synonyms:
   censure, reproach, reprehension, condemnation, stricture, animadversion, reproof, culpability, reprehensibility, demerit, wrongdoing, fault

2. blameverb

   Synonyms:
   censure, reproach

How to use blame in a sentence?

1. Fadel Gheit:

   Oil prices played a big part, but Petrobras has itself to blame too, it's a classic case of mismanagement and government interference. Low oil prices pushed them over the cliff, but they got to the precipice themselves.

2. Jo Rae Perkins:

   I totally believe that that the numbers are doctored, because they can destroy the economy. They can blame it on President( Donald) Trump, that the economy is not doing good. Look at how phenomenal the economy was doing.

3. Oscar Levant:

   I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

4. Myron Ebell:

   No one wants to be president when gas prices start inching upward, biden and Democrats are facing that reality right now, and that's why you're seeing them cast blame widely.

5. Shukor Yusof:

   I personally know quite a number of people from Malaysia Airlines who have actually gone to the Middle East and I don't blame them because the money is very good, if you compare Middle Eastern carriers to Southeast Asian carriers, they are more advanced, they are growing far quicker — it's all about dollars and cents and they have a bottomless pit of money.

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