accusatory

From Middle English accusatorie, from Middle French accusatorie and its etymon Latin accūsātōrius.^[1] By surface analysis, accuse +‎ -atory.

• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈkju.zəˌtɔɹ.i/

• Audio (Southern England):

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accusatory (comparative more accusatory, superlative most accusatory)

1. Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation. [from the early 17th c.]
   • 1846-1856, George Grote, A History of Greece:

     This conclusion will certainly be strengthened by reading the accusatory speech composed by Deinarchus […]

   • 2009 February 18, Janet Maslin, “Racial Insults and Quiet Bravery in 1960s Mississippi”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Had she heard the same Bob Dylan singing “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,” his accusatory song about the fatal caning of a 51-year-old black barmaid by a young white patrician, “The Help” might have ventured outside its harsh yet still comfortable, reader-friendly world.

• “accusatory”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “accusatory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.