The testimony of the girl who lived as servant in Kerkel's house was also criminatory. From Wordnik.com. [The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English] Reference
And now closed the criminatory evidence -- and now the prisoner was asked, in that peculiarly thrilling and awful question -- What he had to say in his own behalf?. From Wordnik.com. [Eugene Aram — Complete] Reference
No such fihng, however, shall take effect unless within thirty days thereafter the commission has approved the said prices as not being excessive, inadequate, or unfairly dis - criminatory. From Wordnik.com. [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference
My Lords, long before the Committee had resolved upon this impeachment, we had come, as I have told your Lordships, to forty-five resolutions, every one criminatory of this man, every one of them bottomed upon the principles which I have stated. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12)] Reference
And in this position he has spontaneously placed himself, in attempting to destroy, by his deliberate criminatory letter, the poor woman's fair fame and reputation, -- an attempt but for which the present publication would probably never have appeared. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Related by Herself. With a Supplement by the Editor. To Which Is Added, the Narrative of Asa-Asa, a Captured African.] Reference
The plain, unpretending style of the greater part of the composition sufficiently proves that literary display was not the object of it; while the absence of all criminatory matter against the government precludes the idea of its having originated in party zeal. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01] Reference
The law has therefore appointed special places for such inquiries; and if in any of those places we were to apply the emollient language of drawing-rooms to the exposure of great crimes, it would be as false and vicious in taste and in morals as to use the criminatory language of this hall in drawing and assembling rooms would be misplaced and ridiculous. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12)] Reference
In the event the premium charged is disapproved by said com - missioner, he shall direct the insurer to which the employer was assigned to issue a policy or to adjust the premium thereof at a rate or rates found by the commissioner of in - surance to be adequate, reasonable and not unfairly dis - criminatory, and the rate or rates so determined shall be effective as of the date of the policy, and be binding upon both the insurer and the employer. From Wordnik.com. [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference
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