ACCUSED Synonyms: 123 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

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as in indicted

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noun

as in defendant

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verb

past tense of accuse

as in charged

to make a claim of wrongdoing against she was accused of lying on the employment application

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Internet sleuths accused him of trying to improve his lie in the rough, similar to allegations against Bryson DeChambeau at the British Open last month. — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026 Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed (D) has had close political ties to Hasan Piker, who has been accused of antisemitism. — Alexei Koseff, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2026 This comes less than two weeks after Wondermind SRS 44 LLC and Bespoke Wondermind LLC accused the singer, her mother Mandy Teefey, 50, and their former business partner Daniella Pierson, 31, of multiple counts of fraud and breach of contract. — Liza Esquibias, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026 Castro is accused of firing a gun through the front door of a Minneapolis home, shooting Sosa-Celis in the leg. — Valerie Gonzalez, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026 Bank of America, which is not accused of wrongdoing in the lawsuit, declined to comment. — Chase Jordan august 27, Charlotte Observer, 27 Aug. 2026 Sprague picked up the final quarter laid out by Reddington, who accused the prosecution of implying that Clancy was instructed to lie about hearing voices. — Sumiko Corley, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2026 In the Tates' case, the crimes they're accused of are some of the most serious in either country. — Bill Chappell, NPR, 27 Aug. 2026 Hickey is also accused of helping three other people illegally harvest turkeys. — Kris Millgate, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for accused

Adjective

Jim Trusty, the lawyer for Rozier, excoriated the league after a hearing Wednesday that served as a status update on Rozier’s case, as well as the other three defendants who remain indicted alongside him.

— Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 11 June 2026
The conservative-leaning New York Post has also reported Wahhaj was listed as an un-indicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

— Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025

Definition of indicted

Noun

Benjamin Song, the lead defendant in the Texas case, furthered his activist career in a leftist gun club that used the A/I Collective’s NoBlogs platform to post pro-insurrection messaging.

— Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 26 Aug. 2026
Surveillance video from the Cedar Glenn complex showed Brunson, Newman, and another unnamed co-defendant jumping a fence, approaching a Chevrolet Suburban, and fleeing after being confronted by a witness.

— Ana Maria Soler, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of defendant

Verb

From that point on, Kusama’s absorbing and fresh art, once charged by avant-garde energies, became more or less a meaning-free expression of market principles, an exercise in branding.

— Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026
Cleounsee Fisher, 18, was charged with two counts of armed robbery after he was taken into custody Tuesday night in the 2200 block of Eschol Avenue, Zion police said.

— Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of charged

Adjective

But isn’t the manager culpable when his dugout repeatedly butchers fundamental baserunning and defensive basics?

— Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 17 Aug. 2026
Yes, every life includes some unique and untold combination of experiences for which other people are morally culpable.

— Thomas Lake, AJC.com, 4 June 2026

Definition of culpable

Noun

A Little Rock police incident report lists Shelton as a suspect in the theft of mail from the post office at 7401 Colonel Glenn Road, where a blue postal collection box had been broken into early Friday.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Aug. 2026
Smith said the suspect has two TikTok accounts and one Instagram account.

— Dennis Romero, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of suspect

Noun

Hansen’s sentence was first reduced to 25 years to life, and the state later created a pathway to earlier parole for many youthful offenders serving life sentences.

— Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2026
From names like ChatGPT and Gemini to Meta AI, Perplexity, and even Grok, the report identifies which chatbots are the most privacy-friendly and transparent in their practices and which are the worst offenders.

— Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 21 Aug. 2026

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