Expressing, containing, or implying blame, guilt, or culpability.
From Latin culpa (fault) + -atory (adjective suffix meaning 'relating to' or 'causing'). This formal adjective appears in legal and ecclesiastical language.
'Culpatory' is the kind of word judges and theologians use when they want to sound authoritative about assigning blame—it's more formal than 'blaming' because it invokes the serious Latin tradition of moral judgment.
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