Meaning & use
Accusational
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Expressing or implying an accusation; having the tone or character of blame.
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Her accusational tone made everyone in the meeting feel defensive.
He tried to soften the accusational edge in his email before sending it to his colleague.
A note on using this word
A rarer variant of "accusatory," used mainly in informal or journalistic writing to describe blame-laden language.
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Words with an opposite meaning
exculpatory
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