(v. t.) To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense
(v. t.) to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; -- with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor.
(v. t.) To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure.
(v. t.) To betray; to show. [L.]
Example Sentences:
(1) The judge, Mr Justice John Royce, told George she was "cold" and "calculating", as further disturbing details of her relationship with the co-accused, Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen, emerged.
(2) Some international coverage of the outbreak was accused of misinforming western readers.
(3) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(4) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
(5) The charges against Harrison were filed just after two white men were accused of fatally shooting three black people in Tulsa in what prosecutors said were racially motivated attacks.
(6) Defence lawyers suggested this week that Anwar's accuser was a "compulsive and consummate liar" who may have been put up to it.
(7) Meanwhile, Hunt has been accused of backtracking on a key recommendation in the official report into Mid Staffs.
(8) She has been accused of being responsible for rape, sexual slavery, and prostitution itself.
(9) We repeat our call for them to do so at the earliest opportunity, and to share those findings so that we can take any appropriate actions.” In the BBC programme the 29-year-old Rupp, who won 10,000m silver at the London 2012 Olympics behind Farah, was accused of having taken testosterone and being a regular user of the asthma drug prednisone, which is banned in competition.
(10) David Cameron was accused of revealing his ill-suppressed Bullingdon Club instincts when he shouted at the Labour frontbencher Angela Eagle to "calm down, dear" as she berated him for misleading MPs at prime minister's questions.
(11) Certainly not ones with young children accused of non-violent crimes.
(12) Analysis of official registers reveals the 38 companies in the first wave of the initiative – more than two-thirds of which are based overseas – have collectively had 698 face-to-face meetings with ministers under the current government, prompting accusations of an over-cosy relationship between corporations and ministers.
(13) I never accuse a student of plagiarizing unless I have proof, almost always in the form of sources easily found by Googling a few choice phrases.
(14) And any Labour commitment on spending is fatally undermined by their deficit amnesia.” Davey widened the attack on the Tories, following a public row this week between Clegg and Theresa May over the “snooper’s charter”, by accusing his cabinet colleague Eric Pickles of coming close to abusing his powers by blocking new onshore developments against the wishes of some local councils.
(15) He said he was appalled by the player's accusations and plans to meet with Martin on Wednesday at an undisclosed location.
(16) For a union that, in less than 25 years, has had to cope with the end of the cold war, the expansion from 12 to 28 members, the struggle to create a single currency and, most recently, the eurozone crisis, such a claim risks accusations of hyperbole.
(17) Fred Goodwin was an accountant and no one ever accused the former chief executive of RBS of consuming mind-alterating substances – unless you count over-inhaling his own ego.
(18) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
(19) The Iranians have accused the Israelis and the US of designing and deploying Stuxnet, which set some of their centrifuges spinning out of control.
(20) Does parliamentary privilege really mean that the four accused should not face trial?
Recriminate
Definition:
(v. i.) To return one charge or accusation with another; to charge back fault or crime upon an accuser.
(v. t.) To accuse in return.
Example Sentences:
(1) The consequences of choosing impasse are hardly threatening: mutual recriminations over the cause of stalemate, new rounds of talks, and retaining control of all of the West Bank from within and much of Gaza from without.
(2) The samples could help inform an international response to the attack, which has sharply upped the stakes in Syria's civil war, drawing demands for recrimination and edging a much-feared regional spillover closer to reality.
(3) Since 7 May, some of the public recriminations involving Ukip have included: Farage’s decision to resign, only to go back on his decision four days later, prompting one of the party’s biggest donors, Stuart Wheeler, to call for him to step back in favour of someone quieter.
(4) But that’s the point: if and when it happens it will be hard enough for British Jews to deal with our own differences and mutual recriminations.
(5) In that respect, everyone in court number one had already lived through 24-hour cycles of tension, violence, anarchy, horror, cleanup, clampdown, fightback, soul-searching and recrimination.
(6) The increasingly grim news from Iraq fuelled fresh recriminations in Washington on Sunday, with Republicans turning on the White House and each other.
(7) The protests were the latest in a series by fast-food and retail workers in the US, who have been campaigning for a raise in the minimum wage and the right to join unions without recrimination.
(8) But Burnham and others, including Watson, believe a leadership race would destabilise and risk splitting the party amid bitter recriminations between the leadership team – backed by the grassroots membership – and most of the party’s MPs.
(9) The conference has been characterised by posturing and recriminations but gained focus on Friday with the release of a document outlining ambitious greenhouse gas cuts over the next 40 years.
(10) The revelation last week of that second batch of bigoted text messages has prompted another round of recrimination between city leaders and again raised the question: how can this be happening in liberal San Francisco ?
(11) Recriminations began to fly after the meeting ended.
(12) Or falling over amid recriminations over who sat on the iPhone.
(13) UN-brokered peace talks this year brought a period of relief to parts of the country, but after they collapsed in recriminations this summer the airstrikes escalated.
(14) The remarks were a reflection of the bitter recriminations that broke out as Labour negotiators with the Lib Dems accused Clegg's team of proposing ludicrous spending pledges, and Clegg himself of obstructing talks.
(15) It would be the low point in a brutal, recrimination-filled night, one many participants would recall as the nadir of the three-year eurozone crisis.
(16) Recriminations also continued over the government's repatriation programme via the Channel ports and Spain, under which Madrid was named as a "hub" airport for getting travellers from destinations outside Europe back home.
(17) But his wife and brother-in-law remain on the transplant list, still sick and still waiting, leaving the family in a toxic tangle of illness, guilt and recrimination.
(18) The increasingly grim news from Iraq, where Isis and its Sunni militant allies have reportedly captured the Turaibil crossing with Jordan and the al-Walid crossing with Syria, fuelled fresh recriminations in Washington on Sunday, with Republicans turning on the White House and each other.
(19) Recriminations were strong on Sunday morning as many Australians woke up to the shock news that Pauline Hanson’s One Nation was on track to be elected to the Senate, possibly with more than one seat.
(20) The plan to allow them to stand as bishops was derailed by just six votes cast by lay members in November 2012, causing bitter recriminations within the Church of England and prompting threats of an intervention by parliament.