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accuse

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1. accuse - Noun

2. accuse - Verb

Meaning

Accusation.

To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense

to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; -- with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor.

To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure.

To betray; to show. [L.]

Source: Webster's dictionary

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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. Denis Diderot

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet. Hugo Chávez

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. Oliver Goldsmith

Look after your property, and you won't accuse your neighbour of being a thief. Afghan Proverb

If there is still doubt do not accuse. Spanish Proverb

God detests a man who rushes to accuse a neighbor. Jewish Proverb

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