noun
definition
Accusation.
verb
definition
To find fault with, blame, censure
definition
(followed by "of") to charge with having committed a crime or offence
example
For the U.S. President to be impeached, he must be accused of a high crime or misdemeanor.
synonyms
definition
To make an accusation against someone
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Examples of accuse in a Sentence
I didn't accuse anyone.
It had provided the opportunity for him to accuse her of being unfaithful.
His gaze narrowed, as if about to accuse her of lying.
It was most unkind of you to cruelly diagnose him otherwise and accuse him of being a thief.
Nor is it just to accuse him of cruelty in his treatment of enemies.
Did you accuse Fitzgerald?
Richard pretended to hold them among his best friends, but in 1398 induced Bolingbroke to accuse BanishNorfolk of treasonable language.
This is simply another form of trade, so some might accuse me of double counting some of my forty-three reasons war will end.
In violation of the Law he married a brother's widow, who had already borne children, and in general he showed himself so fierce and tyrannical that the Jews joined with the Samaritans to accuse him before the emperor.
A master could not enter into a contract with his slave, nor could he accuse him of theft before the law; for, if the slave took anything, this was not a subtraction, but only a displacement, of property.
Several ancient writers accuse him of intentional untruthfulness.
I told Miss Worthington I wasn't one to accuse, but I didn't argue with her none, neither.
A slave could not accuse his master, except of adultery or incest (under the latter name being included the violation of sacred things or places); the case of high treason was afterwards added to these.
Sarpi, in urging Casaubon to write against Baronius, warns him never to charge or suspect him of bad faith, for no one who knew him could accuse him of disloyalty to truth.
He was tribune elect in 63, and it had been arranged that, after entering upon his office, he should publicly accuse Cicero of responsibility for the impending war.
And here it is to be observed that Micaiah, who proved the true prophet, does not accuse the others of conscious imposture; he admits that they speak under the influence of a spirit proceeding from Yahweh, but it is a lying spirit sent to deceive.
Again, the meanness of my estate doth somewhat move me; for though I cannot accuse myself that I am either prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend, nor my course to get.
It was not plausible to accuse such persons of plotting with the queen to overthrow the protector, and public opinion began to turn against Gloucester.
No-one could accuse Sony of resting on its laurels, and the range of consumer camcorders produced by the electronics giant continues to expand.
I accuse nobody without proof, because I realize it's just as bad to accuse someone frivolously as to do something illicit.
In 424 B.C. the contingent which the Thespians had been compelled to furnish sustained heavy losses at Delium, and in the next year the Thebans took advantage of this temporary enfeeblement to accuse their neighbours of friendship towards Athens and to dismantle their walls.
Critics accuse her of selling her body for fame, but Madonna maintains that it is alright, as long as she is the one in control of the exploitation.
Many Facebook users and others accuse Zynga, the developer of FarmVille, with copying the Farm Town platform.
So grave was the crime of simony considered that even infamous persons could accuse of it.
His chosen ministers were wise and experienced officials, whom no man could call favorites or accuse of maladministration.
His real offence was a witticism at the expense of Sejanus, who put up two of his creatures to accuse him in the senate.
It must be remembered that any Athenian citizen was at liberty to accuse another of a public offence, and the danger of such a privilege being abused is sufficiently obvious.
Modern critics, who were not present and knew neither, often accuse Aristotle of misrepresenting Plato.
The founders of the school sought to invest their doctrines with the halo of tradition by ascribing them to Pythagoras and Plato, and there is no reason to accuse them of insincerity.
If God determines to extend the promise of faith to the Gentiles, who shall accuse Him of injustice?
Those two weeks had given him the opportunity to accuse her of infidelity - and even deny his own child.
Aid workers accuse the government of mistreating refugees as part of an effort to get them to resettle in camps in Albania.
The pro-life people accuse the abortionists of being sentimental in the counseling room.
Nobody could accuse Prof Nickell (who sits on the monetary policy committee) of anti-Labour bias.
Please let them not accuse the Liberal democrats of not having a solution.
He has the effrontery to accuse Kant of barbarous jargon.
It would be harder to accuse such a body of favoring European businesses, as many American lawmakers have done in the past.
Some people may also suspect cheating and unknowingly accuse someone who is innocent.
Its critics, however, accuse it of lack of stability, and assert that the use of large leading wheels as drivers results in rigidity and produces destructive strains on the machinery and permanent way.
Eusebius accepted the small bishopric of Emesa (the modern Horns) in Phoenicia, but his powers as mathematician and astronomer led his flock to accuse him of practising sorcery, and he had to flee to Laodicea.
After the coup d'etat of December 1851 he was one of those who sought to accuse Napoleon of high treason.
It is difficult to imagine a more serious libel than to accuse a business of being associated with terrorism.
It is often suggested that we have no ethics of our own; very often the bourgeoisie accuse us communists of rejecting all morality.
Modern Supralapsarians thus accuse the British delegates of teaching hypothetical universalism.
His unpopularity in the Assembly was extreme, yet he insisted on speaking on the question of the king's trial, declared it unfair to accuse Louis for anything anterior to his acceptance of the constitution, and though implacable towards the king, as the one man who must die for the people's good, he would not allow Malesherbes, the king's counsel, to be attacked in his paper, and speaks of him as a "sage et respectable vieillard."
You should not, however, immediately accuse your teenage son of doing something when you are not completely sure that he did it.
Sapir goes on to accuse Cruise of hiring Anthony Pellicano, king of illegal wiretapping (and serving a 15 year sentence for it), to illegally tap into Sapir's phone conversations during a lawsuit Cruise brought against Sapir.
Research shows that the Air Ionizer by Alpine has mixed reviews, but many customers and independent reviewers go so far as to accuse the company of using their dealers to place positive reviews on a variety of websites.
First, be careful about how you accuse the alleged guilty party.
Is it love you are giving when you constantly accuse someone of wrong doing where there is no wrongdoing?