accusatory

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Scrabble points: 17
Words With Friends: 19
Letters: 10

Pronunciation

/əˈkju.zəˌtɔɹ.i/(US)

Definition of accusatory

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation.

“This conclusion will certainly be strengthened by reading the accusatory speech composed by Deinarchus […]”
“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.”

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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Italic *kaussā Old Latin caussa Latin causa Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin accūsō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin accūsātor Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin accūsātōriusder. Middle French accusatoriebor. ▲ Latin accūsātōriusbor. Middle English accusatorie English accusatory From Middle English accusatorie, from Middle French accusatorie and its etymon Latin accūsātōrius. By surface analysis, accuse + -atory.

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