indictable

indict | American Dictionary

indict
verb[ T ]
 lawus/ɪnˈdɑɪt/
to accuse someone officially of a crime:
Five people were indicted on charges of robbery.

indict | Business English

indict
verb[ T,usually passive ]
 LAWuk /ɪnˈdaɪt/us
if someone is indicted in a court of law, they are officially accused of a serious crime:
be indicted on chargesHe was indicted on charges of fraud.
be indicted for sthThe financier has been indicted for insider trading.
The two defendants were indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh.

Examples of indict

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Can we legitimately indict goddess groups when they have simply been following archaeologists, albeit somewhat outdated ones?
By this formula, spectral evidence could be used to indict, but not to convict.
Corporate tax laws are also indicted for providing perverse incentives in the structuring of corporate balance sheets and executive remuneration.
Relative positions of markers and genes are indicted.
Impressions examines the profession of authorship, indicting profit-seeking at the expense of moral responsibility.
One hundred and fifty-six persons were indicted before and during the active life of the court of oyer and terminer.
The computer itself was about to be indicted for the disasters.
The grand jury's no bill says merely that there is insufficient evidence to indict.
The universal scope of the arguments indicted gynaecocracy in any form.
They indict the misleading assumptions on which most international reform policies are predicated.
Moreover, they indict static, cross-sectional studies for giving misleading pictures of how the effects of risk and protective factors combine.
Therefore, a higher aggregated average value indicted higher effectiveness and vice versa.
A succeeding grand jury declined to indict any members of the sheeted order.
In these cases, and in many others, ballads implicitly or explicitly exculpated individuals of moral responsibility while providing contexts which could indict social structures.
The resident indicted that she wanted her relative to take part in the interview, therefore this person was approached and involved.
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