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finger-pointing

[ fing-ger-poin-ting ]

noun

  1. the imputation of blame or responsibility.


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After the most recent Avicii meltdown, an avid finger-pointing game has gone wild on the Web.

Calls to slaughter Muslims followed by finger-pointing at Obama and gun-control activists.

And I thought, ‘You know, finger pointing, finger painting, and finger printing are all just one letter apart.’

And that kind of finger-pointing explains why the sequester story will soon fade from the headlines.

The resignation-dismissal of the respected Palestinian Prime Minister has provoked plenty of finger-pointing.

It was from the church over in the town,—the big white church with the long finger pointing at the sky.

My eyes followed his finger pointing through the far arched doorway to the control room.

So windless was the air that the smoke remained like some solemn upraised finger pointing from earth to heaven.

The whip should be held with the first finger pointing up the stick, and the lash under the second finger.

His long nose pointed accusingly toward Harper, like a finger pointing out a criminal.

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