All 11 Uses
incriminate
in
Murder On The Orient Express
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- It was used to burn an incriminating paper of some kind.†
Chpt 1.7 *incriminating = making appear guilty
- I—" He paused, then added rather guiltily, "Seems I'm kind of incriminating myself."†
Chpt 2.2
- Doubtless he is washing blood from his hands, clearing up after the crime, burning the incriminating letter.†
Chpt 3.1
- I incline to the view that someone else dropped the pipe-cleaner-and did so to incriminate the long-legged Englishman.†
Chpt 3.2incriminate = make appear guilty
- Taken at its simplest it is a clue which directly incriminates someone whose initial is H, and it was dropped there unwittingly by that person.†
Chpt 3.3incriminates = makes look guilty
- She will be questioned, her connection with the Armstrong family will be brought out —et voil à : motive —andan incriminating article of evidence.†
Chpt 3.3incriminating = making appear guilty
- It may have been placed there by someone in order to incriminate you?†
Chpt 3.4incriminate = make appear guilty
- The description of the mythical 'small dark man with a womanish voice'—a convenient description since it had the merit of not incriminating any of the actual Wagon Lit conductors and would apply equally well to a man or a woman.†
Chpt 3.9incriminating = making appear guilty
- Two so-called 'clues' were dropped in the dead man's compartment-one incriminating Colonel Arbuthnot (who had the strongest alibi and whose connection with the Armstrong family was probably the hardest to prove); and the second clue, the handkerchief, incriminating Princess Dragomiroff who, by virtue of her social position, her particularly frail physique and the alibi given her by her maid and the conductor, was practically in an unassailable position.†
Chpt 3.9
- Two so-called 'clues' were dropped in the dead man's compartment-one incriminating Colonel Arbuthnot (who had the strongest alibi and whose connection with the Armstrong family was probably the hardest to prove); and the second clue, the handkerchief, incriminating Princess Dragomiroff who, by virtue of her social position, her particularly frail physique and the alibi given her by her maid and the conductor, was practically in an unassailable position.†
Chpt 3.9
- Besides, it would be a good way of not incriminating any outsiders.†
Chpt 3.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(incriminate) to make someone appear guilty
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely (and more archaically), incriminate can mean to bring an accusation against.