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Usage

• exculpate

  If you exculpate someone, you prove that they are not guilty of a crime.

• culpable

  If you are culpable for an action, you are held responsible for something wrong or bad that has happened.

• culpability

  a state of guilt

• culpably

  in a manner or to a degree deserving blame or censure

• culprit

  someone who perpetrates wrongdoing

• exculpatory

  clearing of guilt or blame

• inculpable

  free of guilt