inculpate
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The phrase “more modern ways of thinking” may curdle the blood of the reader, who may brace for Ms. Lutz to inculpate her subject in matters of race, class and gender.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Nobody doubts that a clever jurist with a dictionary and a truckload of motivated reasoning can use the law to exculpate himself and inculpate others.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2023
Thomas said Samia did not deserve a new trial because the confession “did not directly inculpate the defendant and was subject to a proper limiting instruction.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
“This is particularly concerning given that the defendant is aware that Witness-1 has information that would tend to inculpate the defendant.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2023
This, of course, would inculpate the caretaker Mason.
From The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles by Percy James Brebner
ITV separately agreed to pay Mr. McAlpine more than $200,000 for a program of its own that inculpated him.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2012
At this reference the steward of the barony objected, as also against the depositions that inculpated Dan.
From The Deemster by Sir Hall Caine
She was condemned, after having inculpated thirteen other persons, but “prevented execution by dying in gaol, a little before the expiring of the term her confederate dæmon had set for her enjoyment of Diabolical Pleasures.”
From Witch Stories by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
Such is the grand outline of Dr. Moseley's history of this unfortunate expedition; in the miscarriage of which, it must not be dissembled that, among other causes, Colonel Polson appears in some degree inculpated.
From The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 by James Harrison
At the present moment, you are merely inculpated, and in me you must see your protector.
From The Stepmother, A Drama in Five Acts by Honoré de Balzac
With a sheaf of these letters in his pocket, each one inculpating both parties to the illegal "deals," Blount grew gayly exultant.
From The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush by Francis Lynde
What exaggerated wild thing might she not say, unintentionally inculpating half Witch-Face Mountain in robbery and murder!
From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree
“To try and save his own neck by sending us all to perdition before our time,” exclaimed Delano, evidently for the moment forgetting all caution, from his feeling of exasperation, and thus clearly inculpating himself.
From Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman by C. J. de Lacey
In any case, his importance was forgotten in a splendid dramatic idea entertained by the detectives, inculpating a clever and notorious criminal.
From The Missing Link by Edward Dyson
No evidence was found inculpating him in the slightest degree; but his life was, for the moment at least, made distinctly harder.
From Raleigh by Andrew Lang
