noun
accusation
CEFR B2
a formal charge of wrongdoing brought against a person; the act of imputing blame or guilt
In a sentence
Six example sentences with accusation, each labelled with its topic.
The accusation was read aloud in open court, and the defense asked for six weeks to gather documents.
Law
One careless accusation in the chat and the whole lobby turned on a player who had done nothing wrong.
Gaming
A single accusation of cheating at the 1904 games followed the runner for decades, though officials never produced evidence.
History
An accusation of tampering hung over the trade for weeks until the league reviewed the messages and cleared the team.
Basketball
The senator answered the accusation with a full set of bank records, and the story faded within a week.
Politics
The novel turns on a false accusation, and the accused spends three hundred pages trying to reach the one witness who knows.
Literature
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