crimination

noun

Definition of criminationnext
as in indictment

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crimination
  1. indictment
  2. accusation
  3. allegation
  4. complaint
  5. condemnation
  6. denunciation
  7. count
  8. plea
Noun
  • No one is surprised that Republicans asked Hegseth no hard questions — but that’s an indictment of the state of affairs in and of itself.
    S.E. Cupp, New York Daily News, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The former president, along with Nauta and De Oliveira, pleaded not guilty in a superseding indictment to allegedly attempting to delete surveillance footage at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.
    Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 15 Jan. 2025
Definition of indictment
Noun
  • His accusations brought a torrent of violent threats against the women, upending their lives.
    Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Trump has tried to block the report his lawyers said would perpetuate false accusations from cases that have now been dismissed.
    Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of accusation
Noun
  • In the report, Weiss said his team determined that Smirnov's allegations about Hunter Biden were fabricated.
    Sareen Habeshian, Axios, 14 Jan. 2025
  • In 2020, under then-president Trump, the U.S. accused Switzerland of deliberately devaluing its currency against the dollar — an allegation the country’s officials rejected.
    Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 14 Jan. 2025
Definition of allegation
Noun
  • Police confirmed on Monday that no investigation had yet been launched, but the complaint would be assessed.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The information in my complaint was from a long-ago completed investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE).
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of complaint
Noun
  • Global condemnation over the lack of transparency prompted Maduro to ask the country’s high court — also filled with allies of his United Socialist Party of Venezuela — to audit the election results.
    Regina Garcia Cano, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Its military campaign on Syrian soil has drawn increasing international condemnation.
    Natasha Frost, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of condemnation
Noun
  • His statements — including Holocaust denial, racist denunciations of Muslims and immigrants, and his 1987 proposal to forcibly isolate people with AIDS in special facilities — shocked his critics and strained his political alliances.
    Thomas Adamson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The Muslim-majority states of Southeast Asia, in particular, see double standards at work in Washington’s denunciation of Russia, pointing to U.S.-initiated or -supported wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza, and Lebanon, among other conflicts.
    Bilahari Kausikan, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of denunciation
Noun
  • Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts for falsifying business records last summer and is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday at 9:30 a.m.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Trump wrote 34 checks describing these payments as legal expenses, and he was convicted on 34 counts.
    David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of count
Noun
  • Prosecutors didn’t offer Depa a plea deal to reduce his potential sentence.
    Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
  • World & Nation Pentagon chief loses bid to reject Sept. 11, 2001, defendants’ plea deals Dec. 31, 2024 However, those prisoners have since been released in circumstances unexplained by Oman.
    Ellen Knickmeyer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of plea
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