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blame games

blame games is the plural of blame game.

Meaning of blame game

Noun

blame game (plural blame games)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) A situation in which people attempt to blame others rather than trying to resolve a problem.
    • She was, in addition, always extremely careful to share with the friends in her Support System her belief that it would be whiny and pathetic to play what she derisively called the "Blame Game" and blame her constant and indescribable adult pain on their parents' traumatic divorce or their cynical...[1998 January, David Foster Wallace, “The Depressed Person”, in Harpers Magazine, page 58
    Synonyms:
    buck-passing

Questions about blame games

What is blame games the plural of?
Blame games is the plural of blame game.

Words near blame games in the dictionary

  1. blamableness
  2. blamably
  3. blame
  4. blame Canada
  5. blame game
  6. blame games
  7. blame-worthy
  8. blameable
  9. blameableness
  10. blameably
  11. blamed

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