Synonyms for accused
əˈkyuzdac·cused

Princeton's WordNet

1. accusednoun

   a defendant in a criminal proceeding

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1. • Defendant

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1. List of paraphrases for "accused":

   charged, defendant, defendants, indicted, indictees, accusing, accuses, indictee, blamed, acknowledgement, suspects, suspect, accusation, co-accused, acknowledgment, accuesed, accuser, convicted, charges, alleged, accuse, allegations, prosecuted

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1. Lawyer Kenneth G. Turkel:

   In 2017, when New York Times resurrected a horrific false accusation that had been recognized as false almost uniformly and that, in its simplest form, accused Governor Palin of inciting a murder of six people, a federal judge, a 9-year-old girl, at a time when she had a 9-year-old girl, it became time to draw a line.

2. Giorgos Kosmopoulos:

   It wasn't my plan to spend the rest of my life doing this, to be some kind of champion, if you saw someone drowning you would do the same as me, you would reach out a hand, pull them out, and that's the exact same crime that I'm accused of doing.

3. Ilhan Omar:

   This president has been credibly accused of committing multiple crimes, including colluding with a foreign government to interfere with our election.

4. Ahmet Yavuz:

   Nobody listened to us. It is now clear that those who accused us (in the Sledgehammer and Ergenekon trials) of plotting coups were the real plotters.

5. Paul Reichler:

   How can anyone possibly expect the Tatmadaw to hold itself accountable for genocidal acts against the Rohingya, when six of its top generals including the commander-in-chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, have all been accused of genocide by the UN fact-finding mission and recommended for criminal prosecution.