Meaning of finger-point | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To point with a finger (at someone or something).
   intransitive
2. To assign blame (to) or accuse (someone or something).
   figuratively, informal, intransitive

Examples

“He was encouraged to finger-point at words while reading.”

“Last Wednesday, Graham and George Washington’s Tom Tate almost came to blows after a finger-pointing episode. […] Graham does not finger-point to show for fans. He does it because it comes to mind in the natural flow of the game, as it comes to every player’s mind.”

“At times, he looked at the gulf of dark heads looking up at him as if to a god. At times, he finger-pointed at the horizon, to the enemy that existed anywhere out there, somewhere.”

“Mr. Strzok smirked as the joint committee members fought one another, yelled for points of order or parliamentary inquiries, talked over one another and finger-pointed.”

“As the family crumbles, society finger-points: “First, it was teachers and schools; it must be their fault. Then single mothers; it must be their fault. Now, we’re moving on to fathers,” [Richard] Louv writes.”

“The spokesman for the White House, Ari Fleischer, said it was “time for everybody concerned to take a deep breath, to stop finger-pointing and to work well together.””

“The rumor that the four “Sex and the City” girls were really four gay men was merely urban legend, she said, and finger-pointed conservative author Ann Coulter as its source.”

“More flagrantly, the Delhi police themselves closed some 241 cases after survivors finger-pointed particular senior officers.”

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