blame

IPA: bɫˈeɪm

Censure.
Culpability for something negative or undesirable.
Responsibility for something meriting censure.
(computing) A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.

To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
(obsolete) To bring into disrepute.
(transitive, usually followed by "for") To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame, to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative).
(transitive, with "on") To assert the cause of some bad event.

Examples of "blame" in Sentences

And yet, the blame is being assigned to the free market, and President Bush.
And yet, the blame is being assigned to the free market, and President [...]
The object of your blame is always less of an obstacle than your decision to blame.
We the American people know where the blame is and we say yes while all the GOP can do is whine and say NO.
Jeff Miron: But I do not use the word "blame," since that implies they are doing something harmful or inappropriate.
Now those boys were not wholly to blame for what they were doing; but their fathers and mothers were _very much to blame_!
This blame is assigned to both developing and donor countries and stems from what the article's author Julian Borger calls short-sighted planning.
I should have understood — the blame is all mine — I should have known you did not love me, I should have been filled with anger and shame instead of happiness.