accusing

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of accuse

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comparative more accusing · superlative most accusing

1. Accusatory.

   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.

   1991 September, Stephen Fry, “[Prelude to chapter 1]”, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section, page 2

plural accusings

1. Accusation.

   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?

   1840, Johnson Grant, Sketches in divinity, page 77