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adj. - Containing or expressing a charge of wrongdoing.

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  • As for his wife, physiognomy championed her even in the face of their accusive talk.
  • Into this place Soapy took his accusive shoes and telltale trousers without challenge.
  • Another was an accusive and significant warning addressed to a notorious labour leader who was on the point of instigating his clients to a troublesome strike.
  • Sight-seers the Anchurians are by birth and habit, and they turned out to their last able-bodied unit to witness the scene; but they maintained an accusive silence.
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