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Accuse   /əkjˈuz/   Listen
Accuse

verb
(past & past part. accused; pres. part. accusing)
1.
Bring an accusation against; level a charge against.  Synonyms: criminate, impeach, incriminate.
2.
Blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against.  Synonym: charge.



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"Accuse" Quotes from Famous Books



... and desire to do the best for the commonweal, are the sole possession of the ignorant and rowdy classes of Irishmen, and notwithstanding the undeniable fact that Nationalist Irishmen of every colour accuse the Nationalist members of self-seeking, and of absolute indifference to everything: outside their own interests, we are asked to give to them exclusively the honour due to men who sacrifice all for their country and care for nothing but her welfare. Gladstonians themselves, in the ...
— Ireland as It Is - And as It Would be Under Home Rule • Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
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... that the speeding of the plough on the Neapolitan coast must inevitably mean also the spreading of this fell and mysterious sickness. Let us therefore give the devil his due: the mosquito is a hateful and persistent foe, and his sting is both painful and disfiguring, but do not let us accuse him of carrying malaria until the case can be better proved against him. But enough of fevers and doctors' saws! Let us turn our willing eyes towards the three great temples that confront us close at hand. Before ...
— The Naples Riviera • Herbert M. Vaughan
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... in this case it must be that pretty Miss Cynthia of yours who has drawn on one man to be engaged to her,—not to say two,— and another to make her an offer. I can't endure Mr. Preston, but I think it's rather hard to accuse him of having called up the rivals, who are, I suppose, the occasion of ...
— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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... other associations with you than those which belong to the breeding and sale of poultry. We are truly glad to think of all this. It is exceedingly pleasant to have a good opinion of people, much more so than to believe evil of them, and to accuse them wrongfully. ...
— The Sable Cloud - A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) • Nehemiah Adams
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... firmly. "As it is, the papers accuse the jury of acquitting prisoners. What will they say if the Court does it? I, shall not agree to that ...
— Resurrection • Count Leo Tolstoy
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