criminating's Usage Examples:

The reactions of the nitroparaffins with nitrous acid are very characteristic and have been used as a method for discriminating between the primary, secondary and tertiary alcohols (V.

James Granger >>This preferential and discriminating policy, combined with other causes which cannot here be discussed, resulted in 'the Granger legislation of.

Witnesses are not excused from answering criminating questions; but their evidence cannot be used against them in any proceedings except criminal proceedings for perjury in respect of that evidence.

The ex-queen, on whose premises arms and ammunition and a number of incriminating documents were found, was arrested and was imprisoned for nine months in the former palace.

True grenadine is prized among discriminating bartenders and cocktail connoisseurs.

In 1718 he entered into a correspondence with William Wake, archbishop of Canterbury, with a view to a union of the English and Gallican churches; being suspected of projecting a change in the dogmas of the church, his papers were seized in February 1719, but nothing incriminating was found.

PANEGYRIC, strictly a formal public speech delivered in high praise of a person or thing, and generally high studied or undiscriminating eulogy.

Indeed, the author of this article finds in the writings of Plato a grave and discriminating study of the several forms of sophistry, and no trace whatsoever of that blind hostility which should warrant us in neglecting his clear and precise evidence.

Reports in the dermatological literature incriminating an unspecified coleus will usually be referring to a Coleus blumei cultivar.

Physiognomy was regarded by those who cultivated it as a twofold science: (r) a mode of discriminating character by the outward appearance, and (2) a method of divination from form and feature.

Piso committed suicide, though it was rumoured that Tiberius, fearing incriminating disclosures, had put him to death.

Not that these two powers entered into open revolt against the king; but they had adopted the custom of recriminating, of threatening, of coming to understandings with the foreign powers, which with some of them, like Marshal Biron, the DEntragues and the duc de Bouillon, amounted to conspiracy (1602-1606).

Synonyms:

reprimand, criticize, censure, animadvert, criticise, pick apart, knock,

Antonyms:

praise, dislodge, unfasten, absolve, linger,