FINGERPOINTING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The imputation of blame

Example:

they want all the finger-pointing about intelligence failures to stop

Synonyms:

finger-pointing; fingerpointing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("fingerpointing" is a kind of...):

imputation (a statement attributing something dishonest (especially a criminal offense))

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