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Princeton's WordNet

  1. criminative, criminatory, incriminating, incriminatoryadjective

    charging or suggestive of guilt or blame

    "incriminatory testimony"

Wiktionary

  1. incriminatingadjective

    Causing, showing, or proving that one is guilty of wrongdoing.

  2. Etymology: incriminate + -ing

ChatGPT

  1. incriminating

    Incriminating refers to involving or appearing to involve someone in an illegal activity, crime or wrongdoing, often by providing evidence that proves guilt or wrongness. It generally applies to statements, evidence, or actions that suggest a person's involvement in a crime or condemnable action.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Incriminating

    of Incriminate

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of incriminating in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of incriminating in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of incriminating in a Sentence

  1. Heather Nauert:

    We have credible information that indicates that Russian officials are working with the Syrian regime to deny and to delay these inspectors from gaining access to Douma, russian officials have worked with the Syrian regime, we believe, to sanitize the location of those suspected attacks and remove incriminating evidence of chemical weapons used.

  2. John Lewin:

    You don’t just make up lies for the sake of lying, you lie in particular when there is a reason for you to lie. And, generally speaking in this context, when it relates to incriminating evidence, correct?

  3. Me Your Stethoscope:

    What’s happened here is that health care has been completely changed, now when we tell the truth we’re incriminating ourselves.

  4. Michael Avenatti:

    The other is harder : Does government know information on the device is incriminating.

  5. Ken Paxton:

    This case is about abusing the power of the subpoena to force Exxon to turn over many decades’ worth of records, so an attorney general with an agenda can pore over them in hopes of finding something incriminating, [It] ... represents an effort to punish Exxon for daring to hold an opinion on climate change that differs from that of radical environmentalists.

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