finger-point

finger-pointverb

• 1

  To point with a finger (at someone or something).

  • He was encouraged to finger-point at words while reading.
  • Last Wednesday, Graham and George Washington’s Tom Tate almost came to blows after a finger-pointing episode. […] Graham does not finger-point to show for fans. He does it because it comes to mind in the natural flow of the game, as it comes to every player’s mind.
• 2

  informalTo assign blame (to) or accuse (someone or something).

  • As the family crumbles, society finger-points: “First, it was teachers and schools; it must be their fault. Then single mothers; it must be their fault. Now, we’re moving on to fathers,” [Richard] Louv writes.
  • The spokesman for the White House, Ari Fleischer, said it was “time for everybody concerned to take a deep breath, to stop finger-pointing and to work well together.”

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• finger point