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accusing en · ADJ
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Accusatory.
Both figures looked upstage at the model of a white statue which pointed down at them with the accusing finger of an Italian traffic policeman or wartime recruiting poster.
1991 September, Stephen Fry, “[Prelude to chapter 1]”, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section, page 2:
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unaccusing · accusingly
accusing en · NOUN
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Accusation.
What are these accusings and self-approbations, but a fearful looking-for of judgment, and a prophesying that verily there is a reward for the righteous — natural indications, in short, of a future state?
1840, Johnson Grant, Sketches in divinity, page 77:
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accusing en · VERB
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of accuse
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