What is another word for indicts?

Pronunciation: [ɪndˈa͡ɪts] (IPA)

Indicts is a verb that means to formally accuse or charge someone with a crime. There are several synonyms for this word that can be used interchangeably, including accusing, charging, arraigning, and impeaching. Other synonyms for indict include denouncing, recriminating, censuring, and reprimanding. These words can be used in various contexts, such as legal proceedings or political debates, to describe the act of bringing formal charges against someone. Regardless of the context, the use of synonyms for indict can help to provide a more nuanced and varied description of the process of accusing someone of a crime.

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Usage examples for Indicts

If the people ever wake up, and the District Attorney indicts him, I hope to goodness they put me on the stand, that's all."
"The Crevice"
William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
The resolution virtually indicts at the bar of public opinion, and brands with odium, all the early Manumission Societies, the first petitioners for the abolition of slavery in the District, and for a long time the only ones, petitioning from year to year through evil report and good report, still petitioning, by individual societies and in their national conventions.
"The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus"
American Anti-Slavery Society
Dr Maxwell indicts the Cambridge way of controlling the medium, which he says consisted, for a time at least, in affording the medium opportunities to cheat to see if she would avail herself of them.
"Occultism and Common-Sense"
Beckles Willson

Famous quotes with Indicts

  • The concept of “human existence” suggests an abstract human condition; “class existence” indicts bad conditions. The former suggests a nonexistent egalitarianism, as if master and slave, owner and worker, bomber and bombed all participate in the same universal abstraction. … The human condition for the rich is the inhuman one for the impoverished.
    Russell Jacoby

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