accusatory
adjUS /əˈkju.zəˌtɔɹ.i/
Etymology From Middle English accusatorie, from Middle French accusatorie and its etymon Latin accūsātōrius. By surface analysis, accuse + -atory.
1
Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation.
- This conclusion will certainly be strengthened by reading the accusatory speech composed by Deinarchus […]1846-1856, George Grote, A History of Greece:
- Had she heard the same Bob Dylan singing “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,” his accusatory song about the fatal caning of a 51-year-old black barmaid by a young white patrician, “The Help” might have ventured outside its harsh yet still comfortable, reader-friendly world.2009 February 18, Janet Maslin, “Racial Insults and Quiet Bravery in 1960s Mississippi”, in The New York Times:
- Derived terms
- accusatorily, nonaccusatory, unaccusatory