finger pointy

Adjective

finger-pointy (comparative more finger-pointy, superlative most finger-pointy)

1. (informal) Of, relating to, or characteristic of pointing a finger or fingers; prone or tending to point a finger or fingers.
   • “She had gold teeth in front, wore a long braid and spoke in argumentative, finger-pointy Cantonese,” Olivia [Wu] remembers.1995, Jim Auchmutey, Susan Puckett, “Ah Tong’s Special Sauce”, in The Ultimate Barbecue Sauce Cookbook, Marietta, Ga.: Longstreet Press, →ISBN, “International Flavors” section, page 107, column 2
2. (figuratively, informal) Characterized by finger-pointing (the making of accusations; the assigning of blame); prone or tending to accuse or assign blame.
   • Telling too much of the truth so as to expose the naked hand of power and its interests, calling things finger-pointy descriptions like male dominance, white supremacy, capitalism (I repeat, where is the U.S. Left? Did all these people really just disappear with the collapse of the Soviet Union?)...2002, Catharine A[lice] MacKinnon, “On Academic Freedom: From Powerlessness to Power”, in Butterfly Politics, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, published 2017, →ISBN...