Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

inculpation, exprobration†, delation; crimination; incrimination, accrimination†, recrimination; tu quoque argument [Lat.]; invective &c 932. denunciation, denouncement; libel, challenge, citation, arraignment; impeachment, appeachment†; indictment, bill of indictment, true bill; lawsuit &c 969; condemnation &c 971. gravamen of a charge, head and front of one's offending, argumentum ad hominem [Lat.]; scandal &c (detraction) 934; scandalum magnatum [Lat.]. accuser, prosecutor, plaintiff; relator, informer; appellant. accused, defendant, prisoner, perpetrator, panel, respondent; litigant. V. accuse, charge, tax, impute, twit, taunt with, reproach. brand with reproach; stigmatize, slur; cast a stone at, cast a slur on; incriminate, criminate; inculpate, implicate; call to account &c (censure) 932; take to blame, take to task; put in the black book. inform against, indict, denounce, arraign; impeach, appeach†; have up, show up, pull up; challenge, cite, lodge a complaint; prosecute, bring an action against &c 969; blow upon. charge with, saddle with; lay to one's door, lay charge; lay the blame on, bring home to; cast in one's teeth, throw in one's teeth; cast the first stone at. have a rod in pickle for, keep a rod in pickle for; have a crow to pluck with. trump up a charge. Adj. accusing &c v.; accusatory, accusative; imputative, denunciatory; recriminatory, criminatory†. accused &c v.; suspected; under suspicion, under a cloud, under surveillance; in custody, in detention; in the lockup, in the watch house, in the house of detention. accusable, imputable; indefensible, inexcusable; unpardonable, unjustifiable; vicious &c 845. Int. look at home; tu quoque &c (retaliation) 718 [Lat.]. Phr. the breath of accusation kills an innocent name [Shelley]; thou can'st not say I did it [Macbeth].