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Pointed the finger at
Answer for the clue "Pointed the finger at ", 6 letters:
blamed
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Word definitions for blamed in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"confoundedly" 1833, later also as an adjective, from past participle of blame (v.), as a "euphemistic evasion of the horrible word damn." [Bartlett, "Dictionary of Americanisms," 1848].\n\nThis adjective 'blamed' is the virtuous oath by which simple people, ...
Usage examples of blamed.
As for the young adventurer I thought him more to be pitied than to be blamed, for I did not believe that he knew I loved him, and it seemed to me that the idea of my despising him was enough vengeance for his audacity.
And here I must note a circumstance which my readers may scarcely believe, but which, for all that, is quite true-namely, that I have always preferred virtue to vice, and that when I sinned I did so out of mere lightness of heart, for which, no doubt, I shall be blamed by many persons.
She undertook the defence of Angelica, and blamed the simplicity of Roger, who, if he had been wise, would never have trusted the ring to a coquette.
Knowing her heart, her candour, and the generosity which had prompted her to say that I was more to be pitied than blamed, I thought myself bound to prove by my sincerity that I deserved her esteem.
The doctor blamed him for doing so, and just as if I had asked him he told us of a young man who had died from the same cause, and said that there was nothing more dangerous than breathing in dust.
She listened attentively and thanked me for my confidence in her, and said she should very much like to see the girl and the abbe too, whom she pitied, though she admitted he was to be blamed for what he had done.
God would not have it so, and my confessor blamed me, bidding me to do a penance I had never expected.
It owes that truth to much that is blamed on the Jews, possibly to much that is blameable in the Jews.
Crassus blamed on the worry of having to earn an extra thousand talents to replace what he had spent on making sure he ended up the consul with the best reputation among the people.
Had she blamed Caesar, whom she had known since she married Young Marius twenty-six years before?
No, for the man who kills himself from sheer despair, thus performing upon himself the execution of the sentence he would have deserved at the hands of justice cannot be blamed either by a virtuous philosopher or by a tolerant Christian.
I do get blamed for things of that nature almost as a matter of course.
That Witchfinderhe would have blamed it all on her, said she was a madwoman .
Rising early did not suit his temperament, and I suspected already that he blamed me for having to get out of bed so early.
Any errors we made were most often blamed on my horsemanship, and justifiably so.