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

These, sir, are the bare facts of the case, and, as you can see, they certainly appear to inculpate Dr Pendle in the crime.'

From The Bishop's Secret by Fergus Hume

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

It is this: Do you admit, Countess, that the Waldgrave Rupert was last night in the house with Tzerclas, Neumann, and the other persons inculpated?'

From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Stanley J. Weyman

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

But the inculpated men were rich and they resolved to appeal from the Directors to the Proprietors.

From Rulers of India: Lord Clive by George Bruce Malleson

Clara says that Mr. Silver will hold his tongue, and certainly as the letter is now in my possession he cannot bring forward any evidence to show that I am inculpated in the matter.

From Red Money by Fergus Hume

With a sheaf of these letters in his pocket, each one inculpating both parties to the illegal "deals," Blount grew gayly exultant.

From The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush by Francis Lynde

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

What exaggerated wild thing might she not say, unintentionally inculpating half Witch-Face Mountain in robbery and murder!

From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree

In the debate that followed, Mr. Stanley proposed to omit the words inculpating the honour of Clive.

From Rulers of India: Lord Clive by George Bruce Malleson

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