finger-point
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.44 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "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.”"
Usage
Inflected Forms
finger-points (present, singular)
finger-pointing (participle, present)
finger-pointed (participle, past)
finger-pointed (past)
[ambitransitive (canonical)
to] (canonical)
finger point (alternative)
fingerpoint (alternative)
finger-points (plural)