finger-pointing
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.02 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
present participle and gerund of finger-point
Example Sentences
- "Fortunately, more often, these authorial throat-clearings and finger-pointings enrich the text. Even the sample quoted above moves on to a vivid evocation of the very physical aspects of a hunt. Perhaps surprisingly for a writer so easily caricatured as a dry Marxist theoretician, Berger excels in such sensual descriptions."
- "Colleagues complained that Mr Raab’s “physical gestures” were used in a threatening way. Loud banging on tables and finger-pointing were among the allegations."
- "Dr. [Kirsty] Graham argues that the recruitment view offers new ideas about why apes struggle to recognize gestures that are easy for us to understand, such as finger-pointing."
- "With the folding in November of Los Angeles Opera Theater came the expected finger-pointings and second-guessings among company officials."
- "A huge amount of material on this matter has come into public view: allegations and leaks, backgrounders and briefings, statements and press conferences, sidesteppings and finger-pointings."
- "Relentless were the accusatory finger-pointings."