criminate

Example Sentences

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"How so?" asked Leuthold quietly, believing that he had destroyed every scrap of paper that could criminate him.

From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Hillern, Wilhelmine von

Of course you do; you don't want to criminate yourself when you haven't got to.

From John March, Southerner by Cable, George W.

As in law, so in morals, no man need criminate himself, but he who does so by an inadvertence is lost.

From One Of Them by Lever, Charles James

He had sought out Papa Francoise hoping to win from him something that would criminate Alan Warburton, and to use him as a tool.

From Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives by Lynch, Lawrence L.

Recriminate, rē-krim′in-āt, v.t. to criminate or accuse in return.—v.i. to charge an accuser with a similar crime.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various