Detective Culp examined the old ledger for clues.

The court considered whether culpe, an obsolete notion of blameworthiness, should affect the defendant's reputation.

After the meeting, he offered a brief mea culpa for the oversight and promised to fix it.

Mea culpa — I forgot to submit the report before the deadline.

After losing his job and falling ill, he came to see the experience as a felix culpa that eventually led him to a more meaningful life.

Although the judge acknowledged that there was no dolus, he still found culpa in the driver's careless actions.