accusative

Examples

• All

• Don't be harsh or accusative toward your former employer, but make sure to paint yourself in a positive light.

  Blog text (33)

• "But if you sit down at a common table and discuss the ideas of a particular person or particular text and talk about what this person meant, you can have a dispassionate study without being nearly as accusative."

  Academic text (2000)

• The detective's accusative tone suggested that the suspect was hiding something.

• During the argument, his accusative remarks made it apparent that he believed she was in the wrong.

Synonyms

A

accusatory

vsaccusative

10 6.3

Showing blame or suggesting someone did something wrong

is broader, often implying blame rather than directly stating it

I

incriminatory

vsaccusative

1 8.6

Making someone look guilty of a crime

covers blaming or suspicion beyond criminal guilt

A

accusive

vsaccusative

8.2

Showing blame or saying someone did something wrong

is often less direct, implying blame instead of stating it

A

accusing

vsaccusative

3.5

Showing that someone did something wrong

is more about implying guilt than actively blaming

I

inculpative

vsaccusative

• Formal

9.9

Likely to show someone is guilty

focuses more on implying blame in speech rather than proving it

C

criminative

vsaccusative

• Formal

9.9

Suggesting that someone did something wrong

is broader, not only tied to formal charging or proof

C

criminatory

vsaccusative

• Formal

9.6

Suggesting that someone is guilty or to blame, especially in a legal case

applies more widely to ordinary suspicion and blame too

Antonyms

D

defensive

118 4.0

Reacting as if people are criticizing you and trying to explain yourself

Compounds

A

accusative case

• Specialized

8.6

The form of a noun or pronoun used as the direct object of a verb

How Accusatory

condemnatory

1 7.9

accusative

1 8.6

suggestive

18 5.2

neutral

218 3.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology