convict
verb (used with object)
to prove or declare guilty of an offense, especially after a legal trial.
are convicting
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present progressiveof convict.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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“I just feel we are doing this without a trial, and we are convicting in a court of the media,” she said, adding she was “not comfortable” with the Moran report.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2021
You are "convicting" those fleeing of being "supposed" refugees, before you have heard their stories.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2018
It is the sort of nonsense that a great many serious men permit themselves to indulge in when they think they are convicting some past century of sublime foolishness.
From The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time by James J. Walsh
"And have you noticed this: The Police Courts are convicting every single one of them promptly!"
From Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts by Louis J. (Louis John) Stellman
