prosecutorial
prosecutorial adjective: relating to prosecuting of criminal cases.
Adjective
prosecutorial (comparative more prosecutorial, superlative most prosecutorial)
- Relating to prosecuting of criminal cases.
- Prosecutorial misconduct can lead to the lawyer's disbarment.
- Chief Justice Lynch owes his current job to the exercise of prosecutorial abuse which followed in the wake of exposés about the "Sex Ring" indictments. Lynch's predecessor, Robert Bonin, was driven from the bench after he showed some interest in the gay civil rights aspects of these cases.1981 April 18, Mitzel, “Davis Convicted Of '72 Sex Act”, in Gay Community News, page 6
Forms of prosecutorial
| comparative | more prosecutorial |
|---|---|
| superlative | most prosecutorial |
Origin of prosecutorial
From prosecutor + -ial.
Words formed from prosecutorial
Words that rhyme with prosecutorial
- memorial
- monitorial
- territorial
- accessorial
- arboreal
- categorial
- equatorial
- factorial
- inquisitorial
- pictorial
- sartorial
- senatorial
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- tutorial
- accusatorial
- assessorial
- censorial
- combinatorial
- conspiratorial
- corporeal
- cursorial
- dictatorial
- directorial
- editorial
- enchorial
- epichorial
- executorial
- grallatorial
- imperatorial
- incorporeal
- intracorporeal
- lavatorial
- marmoreal
- multifactorial
- observatorial
- piscatorial
- primorial
- promontorial
- proprietorial
- purgatorial
- rasorial
- responsorial
- saltatorial
- scansorial
- sectorial
- spectatorial
- suctorial
- tectorial
- uxorial
- vectorial
- advertorial
- agitatorial
- amatorial
- ambassadorial
- ambulatorial
- ancestorial
- armorial
- assertorial
- auctorial
- auditorial
- authorial
Questions about prosecutorial
- What does prosecutorial mean?
- Prosecutorial means relating to prosecuting of criminal cases.
- What part of speech is prosecutorial?
- Prosecutorial is an adjective.
Words near prosecutorial in the dictionary
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