blameworthy

adj
/ˈbleɪmˌwɜː(ɹ)ði/UK/ˈbleɪmˌwɚði/US

Etymology

From Middle English blame worthy, blame-worthy, equivalent to blame + -worthy.

  1. inherited from blame worthy

Definitions

  1. Deserving blame or censure

    Deserving blame or censure; reprehensible.

    • Yes, my life has been blameworthy; I confess it. But you know nothing of its temptations.
    • And there are ſome diſpoſitions blame-vvorthy in men, vvhich are yet, in a right ſenſe, holily aſcribed unto God; as unchangeableneſs, and irrepentance: […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at blameworthy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at blameworthy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at blameworthy

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA