accusatory
English
editEtymology
editFrom accuse + -atory, or borrowed from Latin accūsātōrius.
Pronunciation
edit- (US) IPA(key): /ə.ˈkju.zə.ˌtɔɹ.i/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
editaccusatory (comparative more accusatory, superlative most accusatory)
- Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation. [from the early 17th c.]
- 1846-1856, George Grote, A History of Greece:
- This conclusion will certainly be strengthened by reading the accusatory speech composed by Deinarchus […]
- 2009 February 18, Janet Maslin, “Racial Insults and Quiet Bravery in 1960s Mississippi”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Had she heard the same Bob Dylan singing “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,” his accusatory song about the fatal caning of a 51-year-old black barmaid by a young white patrician, “The Help” might have ventured outside its harsh yet still comfortable, reader-friendly world.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editpertaining to, or containing, an accusation
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Further reading
edit- “accusatory”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “accusatory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.