Definitions

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  • adjective charging or suggestive of guilt or blame.

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  • adjective Causing, showing, or proving that one is guilty of wrongdoing.
  • verb Present participle of incriminate.

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  • adjective charging or suggestive of guilt or blame

Etymologies

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incriminate + -ing

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Examples

  • The prosecutors announced last week that they have new what they describe as incriminating evidence not only against van der Sloot, but against two other people, the Kalpoe brothers, Satish and Deepak Kalpoe.

    CNN Transcript Nov 26, 2007 2007

  • Now, what the judge was ruling this day was whether the police, the new what they describe as incriminating evidence that they have against both the Kalpoe brothers and Joran van der Sloot, whether that was enough to continue to hold the men behind bars while the investigation continues.

    CNN Transcript Nov 23, 2007 2007

  • Letterman showed what he called an "incriminating" photo of Huntsman's band, Wizard, on his CBS show Wednesday night.

    USATODAY.com News 2011

  • Western envoys believe the U.N. agency's findings -- which they describe as incriminating for Iran -- will help turn up the heat on the Islamic Republic to curb its sensitive nuclear work and finally address international concerns about its aims.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • But the Strasbourg-based official concluded that the agency had what he calls incriminating language in its letters.

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  • Texas law does not require that such an indictment contain incriminating evidence.

    Think Progress » BREAKING: Karl Rove to Give Additional Testimony 2005

  • TOOBIN: You know, I think the word incriminating is not really the right term here.

    CNN Transcript Apr 19, 2007 2007

  • Leo found that when detectives actually attempted to gain incriminating information, their techniques yielded a partial admission or full confession more than three-fourths of the time. 83 He hypothesized that this level of success would be similar in departments where similar tech-niques are in use. 84 While their precise effectiveness in the terrorism context has not been evaluated systematically, the methods used in American police departments are very similar to those experienced with interrogationboth in the U.S. and abroad assert to bet he most effective.

    Scalia Openly Condones Torture : Law is Cool 2008

  • There are even double standards in incriminating evidence.)

    Forgive and Forget 2009

  • UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They ` re reporting that Dr. Conrad Murray made what they ` re calling incriminating statements to authorities when he was interviewed just a few days after Michael Jackson died.

    CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2009 2009

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