Blamed

Definition: Blamed

Blamed

Adjective

1. Expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "tired or his everlasting whimpering"; "an infernal nuisance".

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Date "blamed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Blamed

Crosswords: Blamed

But you blamed me (The Phantom of the Opera; writing credit: Gerry O'Hara)

She blamed it on the chair (Freaks and Geeks; writing credit: Paul Feig; Judd Apatow)

We'll probably get blamed before we do anything wrong (Senior Trip; writing credit: Roger Kumble; I. Marlene King)

Tha same drama when things went wrong we blamed mama (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac)

It is hard to understand how a cemetery raised its burial cost and blamed it on the cost of living. (references; author: unknown)

Blamed for a Blonde (1939)

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Books

• The Christ-Killers: A Fictionalized Historical Analysis of How the Jews Got Blamed for the Crucifixion (reference)

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Financial reporters blamed the breaks on the bears. Credit: Library of Congress.

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But if they universally have a persuation, grounded upon manifest evidence, that designs are carrying on against their liberties, and the general course and tendency of things cannot but give them strong suspicions of the evil intention of their governors, who is to be blamed for it? Who can help it, if they, who might avoid it, bring themselves into this suspicion? Are the people to be blamed, if they have the sense of rational creatures, and can think of things no otherwise than as they find and feel them? And is it not rather their fault, who put things into such a posture, that they would not have them thought to be as they are? I grant, that the pride, ambition, and turbulency of private men have sometimes caused great disorders in commonwealths, and factions have been fatal to states and kingdoms. (Second Treatise of Government)

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Marius blamed and almost hated himself for not succeeding in his researches

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Health

Innocent groups of people were blamed for spreading plague and were persecuted by the panicked masses. (references)

Folklore is filled with fantastic descriptions of symptoms and abnormal behavior blamed on pinworm infection. (references)

Upper respiratory infections are blamed for some chemosensory losses, and injury to the head can also cause smell or taste problems. (references)

Business

The party blamed many of Germany's ills on alleged Jewish conspiracies. (references)

Deng was blamed for the disorder and stripped of all official positions, although he retained his party membership. (references)

The company’s executive say that NCHZ failed to reach the expected volume of sales and also blamed an increase in prices for inputs. (references)

Children

Cuba

They blamed the Government's lack of will for this situation. (references)

Mozambique

In the absence of separate boarding facilities, local residents blamed schoolgirls for immoral behavior in the community and pressured authorities to comply with the illegal demand, which effectively prevented many girls from attending the school. (references)

Civil Liberties

India

The police blamed a local criminal gang for the assaults, and arrested four persons. (references)

Economic History

Costa Rica

Recently arrived Colombians are similarly blamed for problems along the Pacific Coast. (references)

China

The ban was instituted as a result of floods in 1998, which were blamed on the effects of over-logging. (references)

Uzbekistan

The GOU blamed Islamic extremists, and tried and convicted several groups of defendants in connection with the bombings. (references)

Human Rights

United Kingdom

Dissident republican groups also were blamed for two killings. (references)

Iraq

PUK and KDP investigators blamed Islamic groups for the killing. (references)

Colombia

The authorities blamed FARC guerrillas for the December massacre of 15 farmers in Samana, Caldas department. (references)

Minorities

Libya

The mobs blamed the foreign population for increased crime and the presence of HIV/AIDS in the country. (references)

Greece

For example, the population regularly blamed Albanians for the reported rise in crime in the last few years. (references)

Indonesia

Christian and Muslim communities in these provinces blamed each other for initiating and perpetuating the violence. (references)

Political Economy

Cote d'Ivoire

President Gbagbo blamed foreigners from Burkina Faso, and thousands fled the country. (references)

Georgia

Several deaths in custody were blamed on physical abuse, torture, or inhuman and life-threatening prison conditions. (references)

HONDURAS

However, a slowdown in the U.S. economy is blamed for over 20 maquila closings in 2001 and an estimated net job loss of 10,000 workers. (references)

Political Rights

Armenia

The Central Election Commission blamed the omissions on the negligence of some civil servants. (references)

Trade

Colombia

This action resulted from increasing pressure from domestic milk producers who blamed milk imports for the weakening of prices for locally produced milk. (references)

Worker Rights

Mozambique

Most of these accidents were blamed on unsafe practices or the lack of safety equipment. (references)

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Expression using "blamed": i am to be blamed. Additional references.

Chinese 

责备 (Blame, Blaming, Censure, Censured, Censuring, reproach, Reproached, Reproaching). (various references)

French

blâmai, blâmées, blâmée, blâmâmes, blâmèrent. (various references)

German

tadelte (animadverted, censured, objurgated). (various references)

Hungarian

átkozott (accursed, bally, bang, blankety-blank, blasted, bloody, cursed, curst, damn, damned, darn, dratted, durn, goddam, goddamn, perishing). (various references)

Korean 

비난하ëŠ" (Condemned, Damned, Faulted, Reproached). (various references)

Pig Latin

amedblay.(various references)

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Derivations

Words ending with "blamed": unblamed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Blamed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: balmed, belame, blaim, blaked, blamen, Blameth, blamey, blamied, Blammo, blasme, Blavet, blime, blomet, blume, blyme, glamed. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ambled, bedlam, beldam, lambed.

-1 letter: amble, baled, blade, blame, lamed, medal.

-2 letters: abed, able, alme, bade, bald, bale, balm, bead, beam, bema, blae, blam, bled, dale, dame, deal, lade, lamb, lame, lead, mabe, made, male, mead, meal, meld.

-3 letters: alb, ale, bad, bal, bam, bed, bel, dab, dal, dam, deb, del, eld, elm, lab, lad, lam, lea, led.

+1 letter: bedlamp, bedlams, beldame, beldams, gambled, marbled, rambled, wambled.

+2 letters: balsamed, becalmed, bedlamps, beldames, brambled, damnable, dimmable, embalmed, emblazed, flambeed, gamboled, gimbaled, imbalmed, imblazed, mandible, mendable, moldable, semibald, shambled, unblamed.

+3 letters: admirable, ambulated, amendable, assembled, bedlamite, bemedaled, bromeliad, clambered, embattled, emendable, gambolled, gimballed, lambasted, mandibles, medicable, molybdate, scrambled, subdermal.

+4 letters: admissible, bamboozled, beclamored, bedlamites, beglamored, bemedalled, biomedical, bipedalism, blasphemed, blastoderm, bromeliads, deformable, demandable, descramble, emblazoned, embrangled, formidable, hebdomadal, imbalanced, lumberyard, mailbombed, marbleised, marbleized, mislabeled, mislabored, modifiable, molybdates, mothballed, redeemable, remediable, sublimated, subsampled, timberland, umbrellaed.