impute

After the vase broke, Molly knew her brother would impute the accident to her. She felt angry because she had not even been in the room, but he often tried to lay the responsibility for messes onto her since she was the youngest.

After he broke the lamp, I knew my brother would impute the blame to me. It was not fair. He told our mom that I did it, and she believed him. I hated being punished for something I never even touched.

The manager tried to impute the missing funds to Sarah, claiming she had access to the safe. But everyone knew he was lying to cover his own theft. Sarah's coworkers rallied behind her, refusing to let him blame an innocent person for his crime.

When the cookie jar was empty, Mom tried to impute the crime to the family goldfish, Captain Bubbles. Even though he doesn’t have hands, Mom insisted he looked “suspiciously full” and that his water “smelled like chocolate chips.” Captain Bubbles pleaded innocence with his finest fishy stare.

After a sound like a dying goose escaped from his chair, my brother tried to impute the crime to our dog, Whiskers. But we all knew the truth. Whiskers is a goldfish, and goldfish are known for being silent, if not particularly deadly.

In the heated argument, she tried to impute her mistake onto her colleague, claiming that it was his error that caused the problem. However, everyone in the room knew the truth and refused to accept her attempts to shift the blame.

As the investigation progressed, the detective carefully examined the available evidence. Some of the witnesses had attempted to impute culpability onto the suspect, but their claims seemed baseless and unsubstantiated. The detective needed to separate truth from fiction, ensuring that no one was falsely accused.

The village was in shock as the news spread like wildfire. Someone had imputed the recent string of disappearances to the old man who lived on the outskirts. The accusations flew through the air, poisoning the minds of the townspeople. They gathered their torches and pitchforks, ready to confront the supposed culprit. But when they reached his cottage, they found it empty, save for a single note. It read, "I am not responsible for the missing souls. Look closer to home for the true imputer of evil." And with that, the villagers realized the true source of their terror.

The whispers haunted her, imputing an unspeakable crime. Each murmur, a needle pricking her conscience, tainted her with a guilt that was not hers. The shadows danced around her, casting an eerie glow on the faces of those who condemned her unjustly.

In the kingdom of Eldoria, rumors spread like wildfire, often imputing the blame on innocent citizens for crimes they did not commit. The townspeople lived in fear of being falsely accused and punished for deeds they had no part in. The wicked sorceress, Malora, would impute the theft of magical artifacts on unsuspecting villagers to cover her own misdeeds. But one brave hero, a young farmhand named Aiden, vowed to uncover the truth and put an end to the imputations once and for all. With his unwavering determination, justice would prevail in Eldoria once again.

When the project failed, many tried to impute the mistake to Maria even though she had warned the team about the risks from the start. She felt frustrated and hurt that responsibility for the failure was placed on her unfairly.

After his own poor decisions led to the project’s collapse, the director did not hesitate. In the meeting, he tried to impute the entire failure to a junior analyst. This cowardly attempt to shift responsibility disgusted everyone on the team, who knew the truth.

When the project failed, the manager tried to impute the disaster to Sarah's inexperience, even though everyone knew he had ignored her warnings about the budget. She sat quietly during the meeting, furious that he would blame her for his mistakes while taking credit for nothing.

When the mysterious puddle appeared in the living room, everyone rushed to impute the disaster to poor Mr. Whiskers, who looked distinctly offended. Yet nobody noticed Dad standing nearby with suspiciously wet socks, whistling innocently and pretending the goldfish still had a full tank.

Although my roommate tried to impute the mysterious disappearance of his car keys to my goldfish, Sir Reginald, I remained skeptical. Reginald lacked the requisite appendages for such a heist, and frankly, his alibi of "swimming aimlessly" seemed rather solid.

Despite her palpable anxiety in the meeting, it seemed unfair to impute the team's failure to her alone. The evidence was circumstantial at best, and assigning blame without proper justification only deepened the sense of injustice already permeating the office.

The craven manager tried to impute the project's colossal failure to his most junior subordinate. It was a perfidious act, but he knew the young man lacked the temerity to challenge him, leaving his own incompetence unexamined and his position secure.

The manager tried to impute the missing inventory to Sarah, claiming she had mishandled the shipment records. She knew this accusation was baseless, designed merely to deflect attention from his own negligent oversight. Her colleagues remained taciturn, unwilling to contradict him publicly despite witnessing his incompetence firsthand.

Despite Oscar’s conspicuous proclivity for chaos—once orchestrating a clandestine raccoon tea party in the mayor’s office—his mother would always impute the ensuing pandemonium to “overzealous wind currents,” as though meteorology, not mischief, was the true culprit behind confetti in the vents.

The paterfamilias, with vociferous indignation, tried to impute the garden gnome’s unfortunate demise to Mittens the cat. We all knew, however, that his own profligate use of the croquet mallet during a recent tantrum was the more likely culprit.