fingerpointing

plural fingerpointings

1. alternativeuncountableusuallyAlternative form of finger-pointing.

   The delays have caused much fingerpointing about who at the United Nations -backed Special Court for Sierra Leone is most to blame.

   2007 August 27, Marlise Simons, “Liberian Ex-Leader’s War Crimes Trial Is Stalled”, in New York Times

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   The case is the same with words like ‘here’ and ‘there’. In all such cases, the mere wording, as it can be written down, is not the complete expression of the thought—but one further needs for its correct apprehension the knowledge of certain circumstances accompanying the utterance, which are used as means of expressing the thought. Fingerpointings, gestures and glances may belong here too.

   1979 July, Tyler Burge, “Sinning Against Frege”, in The Philosophical Review, volume LXXXVIII, number 3, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, section I, page 399