accusing
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accusing
- present participle and gerund of accuse
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accusing (comparative more accusing, superlative most accusing)
- Accusatory.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, London: Heinemann, →OCLC, page 3:
- Both figures looked upstage at the model of a white statue which pointed down at them with the accusing finger of an Italian traffic policeman or wartime recruiting poster.
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Noun edit
accusing (plural accusings)
- Accusation.
- 1840, Johnson Grant, Sketches in divinity, page 77:
- What are these accusings and self-approbations, but a fearful looking-for of judgment, and a prophesying that verily there is a reward for the righteous — natural indications, in short, of a future state?