accusablyadv.
/əˈkjuːzəbli/, U.S. /əˈkjuzəbli/ rare.
In an accusable manner; reprehensibly.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > [adverb] > with liability to be accused
imputably1710
accusably1879
1774 Entick's New Spelling Dict. (new ed.) Chargeable, expensive, costly, accusably [1772 accusable].]
1879 G. Meredith Egoist III. x. 213 There is a probability of your being not less than the fount and origin of this division of father and daughter, though Willoughby in the drawing-room last night stands accuseably the agent.
1900 J. H. Stirling What is Thought? ix. 98 One could not very well expect..that expressions at least more or less accusably pantheistic would, during the following centuries, cease.
1993 V. Seth Suitable Boy (U.K. ed.) i. xiv. 40 Nor did the lines commit her to any deep protestation of affection for her father's second wife. At the same time the greeting was not accusably distant.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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