Censure.
Blame came from all directions.
Culpability for something negative or undesirable.
The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist.
Responsibility for something meriting censure.
They accepted the blame, but it was an accident.
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).
The student driver was blamed for the accident.
euphemism of damn (intensifier
"He yarns good," said Tom Platt. "T'other night he told us abaout a kid of his own size steerin' a cunnin' little rig an' four ponies up an' down Toledo, Ohio, I think 'twas, an' givin' suppers to a crowd o' sim'lar kids. Cur'us kind o' fairy-tale, but blame interestin'. He knows scores of 'em."
From Middle English blame, borrowed from Old French blame, blasme, produced from the verb blasmer, which in turn is derived from Late Latin blastēmāre, variant of blasphēmāre, from Ancient Greek βλασφ...
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To assert the cause of some bad event.
We blamed the accident on the student driver.
To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
though my loue be not so lewdly bent, / As those ye blame, yet may it nought appease / My raging smart [...].