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accusatory

US/əˈkju.zəˌtɔɹ.i/

accusatory adjective: pertaining to, or containing, an accusation.

Adjective

accusatory (comparative more accusatory, superlative most accusatory)

  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

accusatory meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

accusatory in Tamil

குற்றச்சாட்டடங்கிய

accusatory in Urdu

تہمتانہ

accusatory in Malayalam

കുറ്റാരോപണം ഉൾക്കൊള്ളുന്ന, ആരോപണം അടങ്ങിയ, കുറ്റം ചുമത്തുന്ന, നിന്ദിക്കുന്ന, ദുഷിക്കുന്ന

Forms of accusatory

comparativemore accusatory
superlativemost accusatory

Origin of accusatory

From Middle English accusatorie, from Middle French accusatorie and its etymon Latin accūsātōrius. By surface analysis, accuse + -atory.

Words formed from accusatory

Questions about accusatory

What does accusatory mean?
Accusatory means pertaining to, or containing, an accusation.
What is accusatory in Tamil?
Accusatory in Tamil is குற்றச்சாட்டடங்கிய. See Accusatory meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is accusatory?
Accusatory is an adjective.
How do you pronounce accusatory?
Accusatory is pronounced /əˈkju.zəˌtɔɹ.i/ (US).

Words near accusatory in the dictionary

  1. accusatorial
  2. accusatorially
  3. accusatorily
  4. accusatoriness
  5. accusators
  6. accusatory
  7. accusatour
  8. accusatours
  9. accusatrices
  10. accusatrix
  11. accuse

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Adapted from Wiktionary: accusatory (page history and authors); accusatory (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); accusatory (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); accusatory (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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