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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.
指責的；帶有指控意味的
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，原文照列，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/
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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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。