Accusation
The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense.
That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge.
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Accusation Quotations
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.
George Soros
Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.
Edwin Louis Cole
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
Henry James
When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.
Piers Anthony
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
Henry Fielding
I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.
Paul Muldoon
People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.
Elias Canetti
This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records.
Holly Johnson
The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.
Patricia Hewitt
Accusation Translations
accusation in Dutch is beschuldiging, aanklacht
accusation in German is Anklage {f}, Beschuldigung {f}
accusation in Italian is accusa, imputazione
accusation in Latin is criminatio, ciminatio
accusation in Swedish is anklagelse
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