- 1指責的；帶有指控意味的
An accusatory remark, letter, silence, or look already treats you as guilty. Nobody has to say “You did it”; the face or the words do that work. It is a slightly formal adjective — news and books like it (“an accusatory tone”). In everyday talk, people more often say accusing for a look. Though actually, an accusatory manner is still only a manner: it shows what the speaker thinks, not what has been proved.
組成From Middle English accusatorie, from French, from Latin accūsātōrius, from accūsātor (a person who accuses). Same stem as accuse.
同家族的字
- accusethe verb behind the attitude
- accusationthe claim that an accusatory look or remark is already making
- accuserthe person whose manner this adjective describes
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
accusatoryadj/əˈkju.zəˌtɔɹ.i/
- 1
Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation.
- This conclusion will certainly be strengthened by reading the accusatory speech composed by Deinarchus […]
- 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.
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