inculpation, exprobration†, delation; crimination; incrimination,
accrimination†, recrimination; tu quoque argument [Lat.]; invective &c
932.
denunciation, denouncement; libel, challenge, citation,
arraignment; impeachment, appeachment†; indictment, bill of indictment,
true bill; lawsuit &c 969; condemnation &c 971.
gravamen of a charge, head and front of one's offending,
argumentum ad hominem [Lat.]; scandal &c (detraction) 934; scandalum
magnatum [Lat.].
accuser, prosecutor, plaintiff; relator, informer; appellant.
accused, defendant, prisoner, perpetrator, panel, respondent;
litigant.
V. accuse, charge, tax, impute, twit, taunt with, reproach.
brand with reproach; stigmatize, slur; cast a stone at, cast a
slur on; incriminate, criminate; inculpate, implicate; call to account
&c (censure) 932; take to blame, take to task; put in the black book.
inform against, indict, denounce, arraign; impeach, appeach†; have
up, show up, pull up; challenge, cite, lodge a complaint; prosecute,
bring an action against &c 969; blow upon.
charge with, saddle with; lay to one's door, lay charge; lay the
blame on, bring home to; cast in one's teeth, throw in one's teeth;
cast the first stone at.
have a rod in pickle for, keep a rod in pickle for; have a crow to
pluck with.
trump up a charge.
Adj. accusing &c v.; accusatory, accusative; imputative, denunciatory;
recriminatory, criminatory†.
accused &c v.; suspected; under suspicion, under a cloud, under
surveillance; in custody, in detention; in the lockup, in the watch
house, in the house of detention.
accusable, imputable; indefensible, inexcusable; unpardonable,
unjustifiable; vicious &c 845.
Int. look at home; tu quoque &c (retaliation) 718 [Lat.].
Phr. the breath of accusation kills an innocent name [Shelley]; thou
can'st not say I did it [Macbeth].