Accuser
[ə'kjuːzə] or [ə'kjʊzɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Informer, informant, plaintiff, prosecutor.
Edited by Bernice
Examples
- The court tried the accuser quite as much as the accused. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Whether this be true or not, I cannot prevail upon myself to become his accuser--and I think with good reason. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I happen to be able to promise you that a watch shall be kept upon that false accuser, Riderhood. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- By so doing she mollified her accuser. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The searching tenderness of her woman's tones seemed made for a defence against ready accusers. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Emanuelsad as Saul, and stern as Joab, and there triumphed his accusers. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Typist: Mabel