What is "incriminating"

Usage examples of "incriminating".

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.

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

Unless someone stumbles onto something incriminating and blows the whistle on us.

No hidden files, no sign of double bookkeeping, no incriminating documents at all.

The search produced no incriminating letters or indeed any letters at all, no clue as to Stevens's source of income, no list or code table that might lead the bureau to a line on Stevens's field staff, and above all, no trace of Stevens's identity.

Before stretching out on the bed, I padded over to Margey's bathrobe and felt in its pockets, dreading to find a french letter or similar incriminating evidence of other men.

There was the jury, solid and grey, listening impassionately as Guthrie Featherstone spread out his glittering mass of incriminating facts before them.