impute

I impute his failure to laziness.

imputed the rocket failure to a faulty gasket; kindly imputed my clumsiness to inexperience.

the crimes imputed to Richard.

They imputed the accident to the driver's carelessness.

Christ's righteousness has been imputed to us.

Why do you impute selfish motives to her?

Rex was living disproof of the youth-preserving powers imputed to life in the college.

the gracefulness so often imputed to cats.See Synonyms at attribute

Perhaps to impute there was some commonality between us, perhaps to...laugh at me.

But many of the noble qualities imputed to him are rather fanciful than true.

It is to the alcavala, accordingly, that Ustaritz imputes the ruin of the manufactures of Spain.

Perhaps both will impute to me the wrong motive.

" You're imputing too much knowledge to her, " I said.

And second of all is an attribution, it's imputing a motive.

'And do you impute it to either of those'?

And so I imputed, oh, my gosh, I was just Andy Dunn a week ago.

They imputed this to the woman.

And imputing motive is almost always going to get you on the wrong track, I think.