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单词 inculpate
释义

Definition of inculpate in English:

inculpate

verb ˈɪnkʌlpeɪt
[with object]
  • 1Accuse or blame.

    he blamed himself, but also inculpated his fiancée
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We are unpersuaded by Jordan's complaint that he would have taken a different approach in cross-examining the clerk had he known that Scott would not recall inculpating him to the police.
    • The Tribunal further notes the contradictory statements made by the Applicant regarding his attempts to inculpate the Secretary.
    • Allen's videotaped statement containing the material inculpating his mother was played twice before the jury.
    • The most likely motives to cause one to falsely inculpate another are currying favor, revenge, and exculpation.
    • This is not unusual, because everyone accused is offered the chance to reduce his sentence by inculpating someone else.
    1. 1.1 Incriminate.
      someone placed the pistol in your room in order to inculpate you
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The only evidence inculpating him in the offence was that of a 17-year-old person who was declared a hostile witness at trial in order to extract the evidence inculpating him.
      • The line trotted out to silence awkward civil libertarians is that DNA can be used to exculpate as well as inculpate suspects and that if you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear by giving a sample.
      • Mr Byrne, you would say that even if the applicant knew of the presence of these things, that does not necessarily inculpate him.
      • The question for financial institutions and private companies then becomes how to fight corruption, credit card fraud and money laundering without inculpating innocent consumers and violating procedural norms.
      • Each new detail is provided to exonerate administration officials but as often as not they tend rather to inculpate them.
      Synonyms
      incriminate, implicate, involve

Derivatives

  • inculpation

  • noun ɪnkʌlˈpeɪʃ(ə)nˌɪnkəlˈpeɪʃ(ə)n
    • Hence the legislature determined to prevent the enactment, if not used by the prisoner, from being employed as a means of inculpation.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It is open to argument, too, that the effect of Jemery's statement on the defendant was heightened by Jemery's removal from the case upon acceptance of his plea, as the jury might thereupon assume Jemery's guilt and incline to take his confession to be a truthful inculpation of the defendant.
      • Husband Craig countered with indignant remonstrations and two-fisted inculpations of his own in court filings last week.
      • But these facts having been established in their general aspect, it remains for us to complete our task by giving them juridical significance, by analysing them with reference to the law of which they constitute a violation, and by making clear the inculpations, - in other words, by fixing the responsibilities of each defendant in respect to that law.
  • inculpatory

  • adjective ɪnˈkʌlpət(ə)riɪnˈkəlpəˌtɔri
    • It follows that the principle as enunciated in Sharp is that both the inculpatory and exculpatory parts of a mixed statement are admissible as evidence of their truth.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • She lied about the involvement of Mr Whitton in the robbery and it was an essential part of the defence case that her involvement tainted her evidence to the extent that she could not be relied upon in respect of the inculpatory material.
      • On August 19, 2002, she gave an inculpatory statement to the police. She has been in custody since that date, a total of seventeen months.
      • The evidence of the appellant and the other driver differed as to their conversation at the appellant's home, the appellant's version being not inculpatory.
      • It is really a matter for the jury whether your client's own remarks in that telephone conversation were inculpatory or not.

Origin

Late 18th century: from late Latin inculpat- 'made culpable', from the verb inculpare, from in- 'upon, towards' + culpare 'to blame' (from culpa 'fault').

 
 

Definition of inculpate in US English:

inculpate

verb
[with object]
  • 1Accuse or blame.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Tribunal further notes the contradictory statements made by the Applicant regarding his attempts to inculpate the Secretary.
    • The most likely motives to cause one to falsely inculpate another are currying favor, revenge, and exculpation.
    • This is not unusual, because everyone accused is offered the chance to reduce his sentence by inculpating someone else.
    • We are unpersuaded by Jordan's complaint that he would have taken a different approach in cross-examining the clerk had he known that Scott would not recall inculpating him to the police.
    • Allen's videotaped statement containing the material inculpating his mother was played twice before the jury.
    1. 1.1 Incriminate.
      someone placed the pistol in your room in order to inculpate you
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Mr Byrne, you would say that even if the applicant knew of the presence of these things, that does not necessarily inculpate him.
      • The only evidence inculpating him in the offence was that of a 17-year-old person who was declared a hostile witness at trial in order to extract the evidence inculpating him.
      • The question for financial institutions and private companies then becomes how to fight corruption, credit card fraud and money laundering without inculpating innocent consumers and violating procedural norms.
      • The line trotted out to silence awkward civil libertarians is that DNA can be used to exculpate as well as inculpate suspects and that if you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear by giving a sample.
      • Each new detail is provided to exonerate administration officials but as often as not they tend rather to inculpate them.
      Synonyms
      incriminate, implicate, involve

Origin

Late 18th century: from late Latin inculpat- ‘made culpable’, from the verb inculpare, from in- ‘upon, towards’ + culpare ‘to blame’ (from culpa ‘fault’).

 
 
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