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accused

[ UK /ɐkjˈuːzd/ ]
[ US /əkˈjuzd/ ]
NOUN
  1. a defendant in a criminal proceeding

How To Use accused In A Sentence

  • No one ever accused us of being over-rehearsed," Stephen Stills says at one point, shortly before he's shown tripping over a footlight on the stage and playing flat on his back while he rolls from side to side trying to get himself back up. Evan Handler: Find the Cost of Freedom (of Speech)
  • He had accused three opposition members of corrupt practices.
  • United Brands produced bananas, and was accused of a variety of abusive practices which were said to infringe Article 86.
  • They are accused of hatching a decade-long plot to keep wholesale oil prices artificially high. The Sun
  • He then accused the powers that be of failing to appreciate younger people's culture.
  • The consecutive statements, allegations, and counterallegations made in turn by plaintiff and defendant, or prosecutor and accused, in a legal proceeding.
  • She was accused of failing to keep her promise to work with the aviation industry to improve the choice of destinations.
  • In her dying depositions she accused Osio of having pushed her in; and there seems little doubt that he did so; for while she was struggling in the water, he disengaged his harquebuss from his mantle and struck her several blows upon the head and hands. Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
  • The commission may come up with a new plan for overseeing the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which is accused of botching its end of the case. Peace, order and good government, eh?: December 2004 Archives
  • During a secret speech in February 1956 (which was almost immediately leaked to the Western media) he condemned the policies of the hitherto much admired Stalin and accused him of hideous crimes.
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