accusatory

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English

Etymology

From accuse +‎ -atory, or borrowed from Latin accūsātōrius.

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /əˈkju.zəˌtɔɹ.i/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Adjective

accusatory (comparative more accusatory, superlative most accusatory)

Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation.
- 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:
  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

Translations

pertaining to, or containing, an accusation

Breton: tamallus
Bulgarian: обвинителен (bg) (obvinitelen), обвиняващ (bg) (obvinjavašt)
Catalan: acusatori
Chinese:
Mandarin: 指責型 / 指责型 (zhǐzéxíng), 非難的 / 非难的 (fēinàn de), 指控的 (zhǐkòng de)
Czech: žalující, obviňující, vyčítavý
Dutch: beschuldigend (nl)
Esperanto: kulpiga, akuza
Finnish: syyttävä (fi)
French: accusateur (fr)
German: anklagend (de), anklägerisch
Greek: κατηγορητικός (el) (katigoritikós)
Hungarian: vádló (hu), vádoló (hu)
Ido: ^{(please verify)} akuzala (io), ^{(please verify)} akuzanta (io), ^{(please verify)} akuziva (io)
Italian: accusatorio
Japanese: 非難の (ja) (ひなんの, hinan no), 批難の (ja) (ひなんの, hinan no)
Latin: accūsātōrius, crīminōsus
Portuguese: acusatório
Romanian: acuzatoriu
Russian: обвини́тельный (ru) (obvinítelʹnyj)
Spanish: acusatorio (es)

Further reading

“accusatory”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
“accusatory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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