accuser

[ US /əkˈjuzɝ/ ]
[ UK /ɐkjˈuːzɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who imputes guilt or blame

How To Use accuser In A Sentence

  • The accused country has to prove its innocence, the accuser has to prove nothing.
  • The new accuser can be produced as a prosecution witness in the current case if initial assessment finds substance in the claims.
  • One of the basic rights has been the right to face one's accuser.
  • They confronted the prisoner with his accusers.
  • Shortly after this incident,… his accusers noticed that he posted a memo on the law school's Web site admonishing them in what seemed to be an act of spite.
  • A guilty conscience is a self-accuser
  • Nearly more than half the town's children vanished, including every one of the accusers.
  • Such objections as that the accused, at the time of the arraignment, is undergoing a sentence of a general court-martial, or that owing to the long delay in bringing him to trial he is unable to disprove the charge or to defend himself, or that his accuser was actuated by malice or is a person of bad character, or that he was released from restraint upon the charges are not proper subjects for motion prior to plea, however much they may constitute ground for a continuance or affect the questions of the truth or falsity of the charge or of the measure of punishment. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10214
  • That, Sullivan argued, met the state constitutional requirement that criminal defendants be able to confront their accusers face to face.
  • The censorian judgments, although arbitrary and as a rule spontaneous, were sometimes elicited by prosecution: and an accuser was found to bring the conduct of Gracchus formally before the notice of the magistrates. A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
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