indictments in English

noun

1

a formal charge or accusation of a serious crime.

an indictment for conspiracy

2

a thing that serves to illustrate that a system or situation is bad and deserves to be condemned.

these rapidly escalating crime figures are an indictment of our society

noun

bill of indictment

Use "indictments" in a sentence

1. The Commonwealth secured its indictments on hearsay.

2. Asahara faced 27 counts of murder in 13 separate indictments.

3. Half the letters were scathing indictments of his insensitivity and lack of understanding.

4. An additional 16 indictments by the U.S. Department of Justice were announced on the same day.

5. And when Donnelly was putting in paperwork for the indictments, I heard him talking about Zambrano a lot.

6. However, the prosecutors now switched from simple bylaw charges to serious criminal indictments for seditious libel and conspiracy.

7. The brothers pleaded “not guilty” to both indictments and considered themselves completely innocent of all the charges.

8. John Gay's masterpiece is one of the blackest indictments of human nature in the repertoire and one of the most enjoyable.

9. The attorney-client privilege is today seen through a Benthamite lens, and attorneys who aggressively defend their client face indictments themselves

10. Other Republicans foresee a period of intensified investigation into activities of the Clintons and their associates ending with a plethora of indictments.

11. The indictments moved at a quick pace due to the company's high profile collapse (and having a whistleblower didn't hurt), but the process still took years.

12. "A Superior Court judge properly dismissed indictments charging the defendant with various motor vehicle offenses, where a State police trooper did not give the defendant a copy of the citation at the time and place of the violation, and where the nine-day delay in the issuance of the citation, in the absence of any justification, Contravened