NOUN
- accusations exchanged among people who refuse to accept sole responsibility for some undesirable event
How To Use blame game In A Sentence
- We do need to finally lay the dead to rest, to accept that mistakes were made that cannot be unmade, and to accept that the ‘blame game’ at this point in our history would be a futile exercise.
- Not only should he be more concerned with ending the war, improving the economy and other issues instead of upheaving the whole political system, BUT he has a tendency to play the "blame game" (i.e. blaming and then denouncing his supporters when he or they get bad press OR stating that his words were taken out of context). Blitzer: Was Obama taking aim at McCain's age?
- They do not have this strange, fey reticence to engage in ‘the blame game.’
- The Scot has handled all the recent trials and tribulations admirably, refusing to play a blame game. The Sun
- We should not play the blame game. Times, Sunday Times
- Instead of trying to play the blame game, the film probes into the core issue of what surrounds the notion of ‘conversion’ while a schizoid nation debates the dilemma of to be or not to be a Hindu.
- Al-Sabban's negative approach to negotiations "disheartens" him, as does the ongoing "blame game" on climate change. The Guardian World News
- Amid the atmosphere of fear and loathing in Kabul, almost all the leading actors are engaged in the blame game. Times, Sunday Times
- We should not play the blame game. Times, Sunday Times
- And as with any hot scandal, it is fast developing into a whole new blame game altogether with claims and counterclaims flying all over the place - and that's just in the blogosphere.