ACCUSING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does accusing mean? 

• ACCUSING (adjective)
  The adjective ACCUSING has 1 sense:

1. containing or expressing accusation

  Familiarity information: ACCUSING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCUSING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Containing or expressing accusation

Synonyms:

accusative; accusatory; accusing; accusive

Context example:

his accusing glare

Similar:

inculpative; inculpatory (causing blame to be imputed to)

 Context examples 

He had almost as much as declared his conviction of her criminality last night: what mysterious cause withheld him from accusing her?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He pointed an accusing finger at the whiskey glass which the other was refilling.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Oh! long, long afterwards, I saw that face rise up before me, with its momentary look, not wondering, not accusing, not regretting.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

During the course of these troubles, the emperors of Blefusca did frequently expostulate by their ambassadors, accusing us of making a schism in religion, by offending against a fundamental doctrine of our great prophet Lustrog, in the fifty-fourth chapter of the Blundecral (which is their Alcoran).

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

And rising as she thus spoke, she would have quitted the room, had Mr. Collins not thus addressed her: When I do myself the honour of speaking to you next on the subject, I shall hope to receive a more favourable answer than you have now given me; though I am far from accusing you of cruelty at present, because I know it to be the established custom of your sex to reject a man on the first application, and perhaps you have even now said as much to encourage my suit as would be consistent with the true delicacy of the female character.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)