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finger-pointing

/fing-ger-poin-ting/US // ˈfɪŋ gərˌpɔɪn tɪŋ //

指指点点,指责,指桑骂槐,指手划脚

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the imputation of blame or responsibility.

Examples

  • But sources said that the evidence so far is pointing away from an ISIS connection.

  • Maybe he was just pointing out that many police feel that way.

  • A whole population of 11 million with every iron in the fire doubling as a finger in a dike.

  • Others agree, pointing out that the 2014 is not as dark a year as it may seem.

  • Some 20 people are there when I visit, including a father with his young son, pointing to photographs of movie stars on the walls.

  • And the finger he pointed at the girl quivered with the rage that filled him at this trick they had thought to put upon him.

  • "You have give a limb," repeated Perry, emphasizing the announcement by shaking his finger at the old man.

  • I played up one octave, and then I wished to go on by placing my first finger on F sharp.

  • Right over the stone marker, a long-shafted war-lance was carved—the blade pointing down.

  • Indeed this first drawing is largely a pointing out or noting down of features without any serious effort to draw them.