Underblame

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    To blame insufficiently; to absolve. transitive

    "But in respect to the emotional crippling of children it seems to me that women have been overblamed for the kinds of mothers they make, and underblamed for the failure of their marriages."

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"But in respect to the emotional crippling of children it seems to me that women have been overblamed for the kinds of mothers they make, and underblamed for the failure of their marriages."

Etymology

From under- + blame.

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