Crossword-Solution: BLAME 5 letters, 239 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Blame v. t. To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault
with; to reproach.
Blame v. t. To bring reproach upon; to blemish.
Blame v. An expression of disapprobation fir something deemed to be
wrong; imputation of fault; censure.
Blame v. That which is deserving of censure or disapprobation;
culpability; fault; crime; sin.
Blame v. Hurt; injury.

Anagrams

Word Anagrams
BLAME anagram AMBLE, EMBLA, MABEL, MABLE, MELBA

We have 239 clues for the answer “BLAME”

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"Don't ___ Me," 1933 song hit 1 answer
"Don't ___ me, I voted for . . ." 1 answer
"I don't ___ you!" 1 answer
"No ___, no shame" (one of the Monique Burr Foundation's five safety rules) 1 answer
A scapegoat gets it 1 answer
A scapegoat receives it 1 answer
Apply a charge to, maybe 1 answer
Attribute responsibility 1 answer
Bad attribution 1 answer
Cast as a scapegoat 1 answer
Do some finger-pointing 1 answer
HOLD person responsible 1 answer
Hold a person responsible 1 answer
Hold liable 1 answer
It may be shifted or shouldered 1 answer
It's often laid on someone else 1 answer
It's often shifted 1 answer
It's often shifted after being laid 1 answer
It's often tough to assign 1 answer
It's put on Mame 1 answer
Lay responsibility on 1 answer
Make a goat 1 answer
Make a scapegoat 1 answer
Make a scapegoat of 1 answer
Mame's burden 1 answer
Mame's onus 1 answer
Members of congress frequently assign it 1 answer
Point fingers at 1 answer
Point the finger 1 answer
Put the onus on 1 answer
Rap, so to speak 1 answer
Responsibility for a fault. 1 answer
Responsibility for wrongdoing. 1 answer
Scapegoat's burden 1 answer
Scapegoat's onus 1 answer
Something shifted in debate 1 answer
Something shifted or placed 1 answer
Something shouldered 1 answer
Subject of finger-pointing 1 answer
There's usually enough of it to go around 1 answer
Thing to shift 1 answer
What to put on Mame 1 answer
Hold responsible 2 answers
Pin something on 2 answers
Point one's finger at 2 answers
Assign fault 2 answers
Finger-point 2 answers
Something to shoulder 2 answers
hold accountable 3 answers
EXONERATE (ant.) 3 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with BLAME (5)

Daughter of God and Man, immortal _Eve_, For such thou art, from sin and blame entire: Not diffident of thee do I dissuade Thy absence from my sight, but to avoid Th’ attempt it self, intended by our Foe.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
The Hound, feeling much aggrieved at this, reproached his companion, saying, “It is very hard to have all this labor, while you, who do not assist in the chase, luxuriate on the fruits of my exertions.” The Housedog replied, “Do not blame me, my friend, but find fault with the master, who has not taught me to labor, but to depend for subsistence on the labor of others.” Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
Had she known Boldwood’s moods, her blame would have been fearful, and the stain upon her heart ineradicable.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Say, am I vile? Am I not utterly unclean, a wretch Doomed to be banished, and in banishment Forgo the sight of all my dearest ones, And never tread again my native earth; Or else to wed my mother and slay my sire, Polybus, who begat me and upreared? If one should say, this is the handiwork Of some inhuman power, who could blame His judgment? But, ye pure and awful gods, Forbid, forbid that I should see that day! May I be blotted out from living men Ere such a plague spot set on me its brand! CHORUS.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
Those who have escaped the dark and terrible aspects of life will find my brutality, my flash of rage in our final tragedy, easy enough to blame; for they know what is wrong as well as any, but not what is possible to tortured men.
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992

Quotes with BLAME (3)

We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection. Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them — we can only love others as much as we love ourselves. Shame, blame, disrespect, …
Brene Brown The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
Robert Bloch
But whenever I meet dynamic, nonretarded Americans, I notice that they all seem to share a single unifying characteristic: the inability to experience the kind of mind-blowing, transcendent romantic relationship they perceive to be a normal part of living. And someone needs to take the fall for this. So instead of blaming no one for this (which is kind of cowardly) or blaming everyone (which is kind of meaningless), I'm going to blame John Cusack.
Chuck Klosterman Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 190 times in crossword archives (1960–2025).