inculpate

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

I was careful to be scrupulously truthful, but I gave him no record of any conversation that I thought might, however indirectly, inculpate Banks.

From The Jervaise Comedy by J. D. (John Davys) Beresford

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 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

The judge in the course of his remarks said, the articles inculpated might be blasphemous, but assuredly they were not indecent.

From Prisoner for Blasphemy by G. W. (George William) Foote

The evidence for the crown consisted, therefore, on the day of trial, of the testimony of persons acquainted with Hornby's signature, that the acceptance across the inculpated bill was not in his handwriting.

From The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney by Samuel Warren

Amongst other papers found in Khan Singh's box were some which clearly inculpated the Maharani, and it was at once decided to deport her beyond the region of effective intrigue.

From The Story of the Guides by G. J. Younghusband

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

William Paul was, indeed, put in confinement, and soon gave evidence inculpating two slaves as his employers,—Mingo Harth and Peter Poyas.

From Black Rebellion Five Slave Revolts by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

She had meant, in this intimate meeting, to give him a few hints as to his personal safety without too closely inculpating Zouroff and his associates, whom she still greatly feared.

From The Intriguers by William Le Queux

Not a scrap of a letter could be found inculpating him.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Henry Martyn Baird

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