Synonyms of indicting

indicting

verb

present participle of indict

as in accusing

to make a claim of wrongdoing against

the grand jury could indict the mayor for fraud and embezzlement

Synonyms & Similar Words

• accusing
• prosecuting
• blaming
• charging
• incriminating
• impeaching
• suing
• criticizing
• defaming
• criminating
• censuring
• denouncing
• castigating
• appealing
• trying
• condemning
• faulting
• impugning
• calling (on)
• chiding
• damning
• implicating
• reproaching
• taxing
• rebuking
• citing
• summoning
• reproving
• reporting
• arraigning
• naming
• retaliating
• reprobating
• informing (against)
• booking
• inculpating
• framing
• recriminating

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• exonerating
• vindicating
• absolving
• clearing
• acquitting
• defending
• exculpating
• advocating
• justifying
• championing
• excusing
• forgiving
• remitting
• pardoning
• shriving

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of indicting

Observers say prosecutors could again ask for further police investigation, rather than indicting Bang immediately. — ABC News, 3 Sep. 2026

Now Washington has sharply escalated tensions by indicting the 94-year-old former Cuban president, Raúl Castro (brother of Fidel). — Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 22 May 2026

Natalie Neysa Alund Cuba's President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez fired back at the Justice Department for indicting Castro on Wednesday, saying the country acted in self defense in the more than three-decade-old killings. — Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 20 May 2026

That led to a federal investigation indicting 79 election judges and precinct captains, nearly all of whom pleaded guilty. — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026

The indictment was returned on April 30, indicting Jamie Jones and Christopher Wackerly. — Brandon Downs, CBS News, 4 May 2026

The central and longest section presents the Guru’s grievances against Aurangzeb in the style of a Sufi pir (spiritual guide) addressing a deviant murid (disciple), indicting the emperor for violating the oath and sanctioning the murder of Gobind Singh’s sons. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Apr. 2026

That reality makes the reports of measles inside a federal immigration detention facility in Texas not just alarming, but indicting. — Krutika Kuppalli, STAT, 4 Feb. 2026

The lyrics went beyond Evers’ white-supremacist killer, indicting an entire system that brainwashed poor white Southerners into hatred. — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2026

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