ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

and with reproach; stigmatize, slur; cast a stone at, cast a slur on; incriminate,
criminate; inculpate, implicate; call to account &c (censure) 932; take to blame, take to
task; put in the black book.
inform against, indict, denounce, arraign; impeach, appeach † ; have up, show up, pull
up; challenge, cite, lodge a complaint; prosecute, bring an action against &c 969; blow
upon.
charge with, saddle with; lay to one's door, lay charge; lay the blame on, bring home
to; cast in one's teeth, throw in one's teeth; cast the first stone at.
have a rod in pickle for, keep a rod in pickle for; have a crow to pluck with.
trump up a charge.
Adj. accusing &c v.; accusatory, accusative; imputative, denunciatory; recriminatory,
criminatory † .
accused &c v.; suspected; under suspicion, under a cloud, under surveillance; in
custody, in detention; in the lockup, in the watch house, in the house of detention.
accusable, imputable; indefensible, inexcusable; unpardonable, unjustifiable; vicious
&c 845.
Int. look at home; tu quoque &c (retaliation) 718 [Lat.].
Phr. the breath of accusation kills an innocent name [Shelley]; thou can'st not say I did it
[Macbeth].
3. MORAL CONDITIONS
939. Probity -- N. probity, integrity, rectitude; uprightness &c adj.; honesty, faith; honor;
bonne foi [Fr.], good faith, bona fides [Lat.]; purity, clean hands.
fairness &c adj.; fair play, justice, equity, impartiality, principle, even-handedness;
grace.
constancy; faithfulness &c adj.; fidelity, loyalty; incorruption, incorruptibility.
trustworthiness &c adj.; truth, candor, singleness of heart; veracity &c 543; tender
conscience &c (sense of duty) 926.
punctilio, delicacy, nicety; scrupulosity, scrupulousness &c adj.; scruple; point, point
of honor; punctuality.
dignity &c, (repute) 873; respectability, respectableness &c adj.; gentilhomme [Fr.],
gentleman; man of honor, man of his word; fidus Achates [Lat.], preux chevalier [Fr.],
galantuomo [It]; truepenny † , trump, brick; true Briton; white man [U.S.].
court of honor, a fair field and no favor; argumentum ad verecundiam [Lat.].
V. be honorable &c adj.; deal honorably, deal squarely, deal impartially, deal fairly;
speak the truth &c (veracity) 543; draw a straight furrow; tell the truth and shame the
Devil, vitam impendere vero [Lat.]; show a proper spirit, make a point of; do one's duty
&c (virtue) 944.
redeem one's pledge &c 926; keep one's promise, be as good as one's promise, be as
good as one's word; keep faith with, not fail.
give and take, audire alteram partem [Lat.], give the Devil his due, put the saddle on
the right horse.
redound to one's honor.