ACCUSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does accused mean? 

• ACCUSED (noun)
  The noun ACCUSED has 1 sense:

1. a defendant in a criminal proceeding

  Familiarity information: ACCUSED used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCUSED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A defendant in a criminal proceeding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("accused" is a kind of...):

defendant; suspect (a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused)

 Context examples 

Elizabeth saw even this last resource, her excellent dispositions and irreproachable conduct, about to fail the accused, when, although violently agitated, she desired permission to address the court.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

This unassuming style promotes study, that's why we adopt it, returned Laurie, who certainly could not be accused of vanity, having voluntarily sacrificed a handsome curly crop to the demand for quarter-inch-long stubble.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Of what he has particularly accused me I am ignorant; but of the truth of what I shall relate, I can summon more than one witness of undoubted veracity.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I looked with interest upon this man, who was accused of being the perpetrator of a crime of violence.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But if it were the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in their place?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No, sir, no! shouted the accused, and disappeared like a jack-in-the-box.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well now, Jane, you know, or at least I will tell you, that when a criminal is accused, he is always allowed to speak in his own defence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The Abbot turned his angry eyes away from them and bent them upon the accused, who met his searching gaze with a firm and composed face.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Fanny found herself obliged to yield, that she might not be accused of pride or indifference, or some other littleness; and having with modest reluctance given her consent, proceeded to make the selection.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It was the occasion when he was accused of slaying his younger brother and fled from the country.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)