What is "incriminate"

Usage examples of "incriminate".

In several decisions the Court, assuming, but without deciding, that a State law requiring a witness to answer incriminating questions would violate the due process clause, has then proceeded to conclude, nevertheless, that a State antitrust law which grants immunity from local prosecution to a witness compelled to testify thereunder is valid even though testimony thus extracted may later serve as the basis of a federal prosecution for violation of federal antitrust laws.

Even with Burgess as lay analyst, Kraft has to lie a little, invent an incriminated mechanism.

I would suggest that you call off the guards and try not to incriminate any other Oceanians today.

Nothing incriminating, just Vulpes letting Vail know that he was still Aaron Stampler and that he had successfully scammed them all.

The usual procedure in an Army investigation, he recalled, was to suggest to the suspect that there were already battalions of witnesses against him, drawers full of signed depositions, and lockers overflowing with incriminating evidence.

People are constantly plotting against Castro, and often the schemes end up on some broken-down boat, loaded with incriminating ammo.

He had all of his special devices with him, as well as the incriminating bottle of chloral hydrate.

Despite these and many more circumstantially incriminating facts, the police had no direct evidence on which to arrest and formally charge him in connection with any of the Zodiac crimes.

Madame la Comtesse, not so discreet after all since you had to hand over money to my rascally cousin Peverel to recover your incriminating love letters and save what is left of your reputation.

It was evident that the spy had intentionally calumniated her, professing to have heard her speak incriminating words.

She'd been present a hundred times at confrontations like this, watching clever men who worked hard to be underestimated, even dressed for the part as Toomey was dressed, perform with supposed fumbling awkwardness until a suspect made the one, damning incriminating mistake: had even played her part in such a charade.

In the bag are the chaos-glass that had once been his father's, and the silver-covered book, and the originals of the most incriminating of the trading papers taken from Jera.

She added the note to the incriminating stack of papers in her hand—the GPR printout, images of Bathynomous giganteus, photos and articles regarding oceanic chondrules, an electron microscan printout.

She remembered the cigars with the diamonds hidden in them-sent to Niklaas van Pelt, so that he would be incriminated if they were discovered, but intercepted by Mara, as all packages were in that house.

In order to blackmail Downing, LizGorman had to have stumbled across something incriminating.