blamed

[ bleymd ]

adjective

1. confounded:

   The blamed car won't start.

adverb

1. confoundedly; excessively:

   It's blamed cold out tonight.

blamed

/ bleɪmd /

adjective

1. a euphemistic word for damned damned

Other Words From

• un·blamed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of blamed¹

First recorded in 1825–35; blame + -ed ²

Example Sentences

This week the Azerbaijani president told world leaders gathered in his country for COP29 that natural gas was a “gift from God” and he shouldn’t be blamed for bringing it to market.

From BBC

"And countries should not be blamed for having them and should not be blamed for bringing these resources to the market because the market needs them, the people need them."

From BBC

We are deep in darkness, before a four-year storm that, according to those Trump has already appointed to his staff, will be replete with violence against immigrants, overwhelming tariffs, profuse and criminal lies, the further fracturing of our country, a desecration of the Constitution and many other forms of villainy — all of which will be conveniently blamed on Joe Biden and the Democrats in an unending stream of calumnious statements backed up by Elon Musk on his de facto state media operation.

From Salon

I have been reading media postmortems on the election and not one has blamed itself for this mess we are in.

From Salon

In a social media post, Trump spelled out how he intends to use Gaetz as a wrecking ball to radically change the US Department of Justice, which he has regularly blamed for his multiple legal troubles.

From BBC