accuser
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- noun
- /əˈkjuːzər/
:
acusador
- In a fair trial, a person must be allowed to confront their accuser to defend themselves.
- confront the accuser
- face the accuser
Cliff Richard's accuser had never met him.
- Cliff Richard's accuser had never met him.
- Notice how he always accuses his accusers before they can accuse him.
- Innocent people always describe their accusers as rats.
- That's how you know how trustworthy his main accuser was.
- And now it's it's fascinating because Satan, who we call Satan, which just means accuser, that's what Satan means.
- The list with names of multiple women, including the sexual assault accuser under the subhead.
- But the original organization that pursued all of these lies with these false accusers, they are never going to stop.
- And I was like, well, but the Constitution says that they have their right to face their accusers in a court of law, right?
- I'm it, you know, I put on the Roy Moore accusers and I put on the Chris Cuomo.
- Had no idea this guy was even like really involved with the other accusers in my platoon.
- Sometimes the person who who thought that they had the skill gets angry for being shown up right, the old accusers.
- So there was one of the articles slammed us for doing this horrible prank on on one of the main accusers.
Examples
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Does he get the right to face his accuser?
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A defendant in a criminal trial has the right to confront his accuser, and I would like to exercise my client's right and confront this witness.
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My client has a right to know his accuser.
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I am the accuser here... ...not the accused.
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My sister, where are your accusers now?
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The accusers may speak one at a time.
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At Mlomp-Haer, the primary accuser was the village chief.
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And I was like, well, but the Constitution says that they have their right to face their accusers in a court of law, right?
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Come forward and meet your accusers!
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Man's got a right to face his accusers, doesn't he, inspector?
Synonyms
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A person who makes a legal claim in court against someone
A person who reports someone for doing something wrong
A person who often points out faults and blames others
How Zealous
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word accuser comes from the Latin verb accusare, made from ad- 'to' and causa 'cause', the same root as the English word cause. So an accuser is someone who points to another person as the 'cause' or reason for a wrong, in other words someone who says that person did something bad.