culpability

He denies complete culpability and has blamed mechanical failures, including malfunctioning watertight doors, for the sinking.

But the law insists on judging legal culpability by reference, at least in part, to results.

Why then does legal culpability not follow moral culpability?

Who best dealt with their culpability and crimes during the war?

Studies seeking to count war dead inevitably raise questions of moral culpability, but their real utility lies elsewhere.

He evidently felt that he ought to defend his own sagacity and absolve himself from mariner's culpability.

Nor had he the innate sense that his misfortunes had been incurred without the culpability of, at least, neglect on his own part.

Upon admitting Lionel again to his presence, he spoke forcibly, though with brevity, upon the culpability of his conduct.

He instantly relieved Mrs. Clephane of culpability; Mrs. Winton did not count with him.

Kemble translates bana "slaughterer," which implies brutality, and perhaps culpability.