Crossword clues for accused
accused
- A small volume employed for defendant
- Bill exploited potential criminal
- Denounced a cricket club not new to exploitation
- Pointed a finger at
- Courtroom figure
- Defendant in a criminal proceeding
- With ''The,'' Jodie Foster film
- Trial figure, with "the"
- One charged in court
- Imputed guilt
- Foster/McGillis drama, with "The"
- Defendant appearing on a criminal charge
- Courtroom personage, with the
- Defendant (with "the")
- Charged with a crime
- Criminal defendant, with "the"
- Like defendants
- A defendant in a criminal proceeding
- Bring an accusation against
- Level a charge against
- Blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against
- Denounced
- Pointed the finger at
- Indicted
- Charged with an offence
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accuse \Ac*cuse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accused; p. pr. & vb. n. Accusing.] [OF. acuser, F. accuser, L. accusare, to call to account, accuse; ad + causa cause, lawsuit. Cf. Cause.]
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To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense; (Law) to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; -- with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor.
Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
--Acts xxiv. 13.We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms.
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To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure.
Their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another.
--Rom. ii. 15. -
To betray; to show. [R.]
--Sir P. Sidney.Syn: To charge; blame; censure; reproach; criminate; indict; impeach; arraign.
Usage: To Accuse, Charge, Impeach, Arraign. These words agree in bringing home to a person the imputation of wrongdoing. To accuse is a somewhat formal act, and is applied usually (though not exclusively) to crimes; as, to accuse of treason. Charge is the most generic. It may refer to a crime, a dereliction of duty, a fault, etc.; more commonly it refers to moral delinquencies; as, to charge with dishonesty or falsehood. To arraign is to bring (a person) before a tribunal for trial; as, to arraign one before a court or at the bar public opinion. To impeach is officially to charge with misbehavior in office; as, to impeach a minister of high crimes. Both impeach and arraign convey the idea of peculiar dignity or impressiveness.
Accused \Ac*cused"\, a. Charged with offense; as, an accused person.
Note: Commonly used substantively; as, the accused, one charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal case.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"person charged with a crime," 1590s, from past participle of accuse (v.).
Wiktionary
Having been accused; being the target of accusations. n. (context legal English) The person charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal case. v
(en-past of: accuse)
WordNet
n. a defendant in a criminal proceeding
Wikipedia
Accused or The Accused may refer to:
- A person charged with committing a crime or offence, see Criminal charge
- Suspect, a known person suspected of committing a crime
Accused is a 1936 British mystery film directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Dolores del Río and Florence Desmond. It was made at Isleworth Studios by the independent Criterion Films, which Fairbanks was a co-owner of. The film's sets were designed by Edward Carrick.
Anklaget (Accused) is a 2005 Danish drama film about a couple, Henrik and Nina Christofferson, whose happiness was shattered when their 14-year-old daughter Stine accused her father of molesting her.
Accused is a 1958 dramatized court show consisting of filmed reenactments of actual court cases. The show was cancelled at the end of its first season.
Accused is a 2014 Dutch drama film directed by Paula van der Oest and written by Moniek Kramer. It was selected as the Dutch entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, making the January Shortlist.
Accused is a British television anthology series created by Jimmy McGovern. The drama series first aired on 15 November 2010 on BBC One and has run for two series. Each episode follows a different character as they await their verdict in court, and tells the story behind how they find themselves accused. The series has featured actors and actresses such as Christopher Eccleston, Benjamin Smith, Juliet Stevenson, Andy Serkis, Marc Warren, Naomie Harris, Sean Bean and Anne-Marie Duff as the accused in each episode.
The series follows previous drama series by McGovern, including anthology series The Street and Moving On. After the cancellation of The Street in 2009 by Granada Television, McGovern formed RSJ Films to produce independent drama programmes and consequently devised the Accused anthology series. Accused is written by McGovern, Danny Brocklehurst and Alice Nutter and is filmed in Manchester. In 2011 it won an International Emmy for best drama series.
Usage examples of "accused".
Justices Black, Douglas, and Murphy, Justice Rutledge, who also is of the opinion that the absolute right to counsel granted by the Sixth Amendment should be enjoyed in State criminal trials, insisted that even under the fair trial doctrine, the accused had not been accorded due process.
As an accredited representative of my government, I could hardly be accused of doing such a thing without conclusive proof.
And remember, when a magistrate has been proved to have falsely accused an innocent person, the law will mete out to the accuser the punishment he wanted to give to the accused.
To pivot affirmance on the question of the amount of harm done the accused is to beg the constitutional question involved.
Good reaffirmed her innocence, tried to shift the blame first to both of the other accused women, and then specifically claimed that it was Sarah Osborne who pinched and afflicted the children.
Even though authorities had arrested, examined, and incarcerated the accused witches, the suffering of the afflicted continued.
The afflicted were permitted to be near the accused during the examination, and they increasingly charged that the accused were audacious enough to harm them in the presence of authorities.
He moved to have Thomas of Gloucester and the chief men of the antimonarchical party accused of treason.
Tertullian accused him, and the sagacious Erasistratus introduced his mild antiphlogistic treatment in opposition to the polypharmacy and antidotal practice of his time.
But as soon as they were united at Anagni and Fundi, in a place of security, they cast aside the mask, accused their own falsehood and hypocrisy, excommunicated the apostate and antichrist of Rome, and proceeded to a new election of Robert of Geneva, Clement the Seventh, whom they announced to the nations as the true and rightful vicar of Christ.
And when the accused has given him a copy of the appeal, the Judge shall notify him that he has yet two days before he need answer it, and after those two days thirty more before he need prepare the apostils of the case.
Judge must take care that, when he affixes a term for the accused who is appealing and petitioning for apostils, he must provide not only for the giving, but both for the giving and receiving of apostils.
And he gives this answer to the said accused who make this undue appeal in the form of negative apostils, and commands that they be given to him immediately after the said appeal.
And even if, after the appeal has been admitted, and the affirmative apostils have been given, the appellant is accused and denounced to the Judge in respect of other heresies which were not in question in the case from which he appealed, he does not cease to be the Judge, and can proceed with the inquiry and the examination of witnesses as before.
From the time of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram - who accused Moses and Aaron of taking too much upon themselves, because every man in the congregation was as holy as his God-selected leaders - it has been a theory, one may even say a religion, with those who have been passed over, that their sole reason for their super-session is an election as arbitrary as that by the Antinomian deity, who, out of pure wilfulness, gives opportunities to some and denies them to others.