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INCRIMINATING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does incriminating mean?
• INCRIMINATING (adjective)
The adjective INCRIMINATING has 1 sense:
1. charging or suggestive of guilt or blame
Familiarity information: INCRIMINATING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Charging or suggestive of guilt or blame
Synonyms:
criminative; criminatory; incriminating; incriminatory
Context example:
incriminatory testimony
Similar:
inculpative; inculpatory (causing blame to be imputed to)
Context examples
We brought him along to the cells, and his box as well, for we thought there might be something incriminating; but, bar a big sharp knife such as most sailors have, we got nothing for our trouble.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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