"You can scarcely blame people for talking," Malta went on after she had sipped her tea.
The department mishandled it, but you can scarcely blame them; they'd simply never encountered a crime of that magnitude.
Furious as he'd been when he heard about it later, Diamato could scarcely blame them.
Harry was captivated, and I can scarcely blame him.
Of course, Stephen thought ruefully, he could scarcely blame the man.
He could scarcely blame them, for at this point, it had been all loss and no gain.
Sonja was going to be impossible to live with for months, and he could scarcely blame her.
If he was more comfortable with his young queen, she could scarcely blame him.
One could scarcely blame her parents for disliking the connection.
Miles could scarcely blame them; it was a hard strategic choice either way.