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
He was arrested, and a careful investigation was instituted; but nothing either to exculpate or inculpate him transpired, and after some months of imprisonment, he was liberated.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445 Volume 18, New Series, July 10, 1852 by William Chambers
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
Therefore, when this sentence had been read, the Protonotary addressed those present and said: 'I wish no one to be inculpated through me.
From Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
He began to formulate excuses for her that inculpated himself.
From Mount Music by Martin Ross
They would be confident that I was innocent, but at the same time they would know the risk I ran of being inculpated with the guilty.
From Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor by Archibald Webb
Lanfear’s friend with the invalid wife wrote from Ospedaletti, with apologies which inculpated him for the disappointment, that she had found the air impossible in a single day, and they were off for Cannes.
From Between the Dark and the Daylight by William Dean Howells
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
On the contrary, she saw with deep pain how every one was busy in inculpating others, and in casting suspicions on royalists and Jacobins, so as to give a pretext to punish them.
From Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
You were then unwilling, as you are now unwilling, to exculpate yourself at the cost of inculpating one who is dear to you.
From A Siren by Thomas Adolphus Trollope
And he was so mortally offended, that he would have betrayed her to the courts even, if he had known how to do it without inculpating himself.
From The Clique of Gold by Émile Gaboriau
To ask assistance would not only be confessing her own disobedience, but inculpating her brother, and really, perhaps, deprive him of the enjoyments he anticipated, and so confirm his unkind words.
From Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters by Grace Aguilar
