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Indictment

noun

A formal document written for a prosecuting attorney charging a person with some offense. Synonym: bill of indictment.

An accusation of wrongdoing.

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"Indictment" Quotes from Famous Books

... the doctors say, is fatal. I move to amend by striking out the last two letters of the indictment. Fat is fat." ...

— Cutting It out - How to get on the waterwagon and stay there • Samuel G. Blythe

... can find out by nosing around a little that indictment is a secret one—even if it really was returned. And I'm half inclined to think there wasn't any indictment! Perhaps those officers were only sent out to get you and hold you as a witness. Fogg has been doing most of the talking about there being an indictment. However it is, if they ...

— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day

... execution of Casey and Cora, and the banishment of a dozen or more rowdies, they had done enough, and were then willing to stop. It was suggested that, if our Law-and-Order party would not arm, by a certain day near at hand the committee would disperse, and some of their leaders would submit to an indictment and trial by a jury of citizens, which they knew would acquit them of crime. One day in the bank a man called me to the counter and said, "If you expect to get arms of General Wool, you will be mistaken, ...

— The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete • William T. Sherman

... coldness of heart. And few things are more terrible than the coarsening of temper which Thucydides depicts as the war goes on and Pericles is succeeded by his caricature Cleon, the man who means to prosecute the war vigorously, and by vigour means ruthlessness. Nor was there ever a sterner indictment of aggression than that given in the dialogue between the spokesmen of Melos, the little island that desired to stand out of the conflict, and the Athenian representatives who were determined to force her into their policy. And after that dialogue comes, in Thucydides' great ...

— Progress and History • Various

... falls the burden of guilt. It may be said for the mother and father that they are usually ignorant. What shall be said of society? What shall be said of us who permit outworn laws and customs to persist in piling up the appalling sum of public expense, misery and spiritual degradation? The indictment against the large unwanted family is written in human woe. Who in the light of intelligent understanding shall have the brazenness to stand up and ...

— Woman and the New Race • Margaret Sanger

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