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Definition of arraigning : of Arraign

Synonyms:

alleging, incriminating, complaining, inculpating, scolding, accusing, blaming, impeaching, imputing, reproaching, denouncing, condemning, implicating, charging, citing, criticizing

litigating, subpoenaing, suing, prosecuting, indicting

Usage examples:

• In a crisis of keen disappointment, only very noble natures can remain strictly just, yet in arraigning her lover for disloyalty, this sorrowing woman abstained from casting all the blame upon him. - "At the Mercy of Tiberius", August Evans Wilson.
• There was even talk, in the first moments of excitement, of arraigning The Roman before the Board of Trustees. - "The Varmint", Owen Johnson F. R. Gruger.
• He began his speech, by arraigning the injustice and impolicy of the trade:-" injustice," he said, " which no considerations of policy could extenuate; impolicy, equal in degree to its injustice." - "The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839)", Thomas Clarkson.