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indicted
[ in-dahy-tid ]
adjective
- having been charged with an offense or crime, especially legally or formally:
New information released yesterday about the indicted former state senator underscores the need for a change in the way politics is done in the state.
noun
- Usually the indicted. a person or persons who have been formally charged with an offense or crime:
From a legal standpoint, there is no concrete evidence against the indicted yet.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of indict ( def ).
Other Words From
- un·in·dict·ed adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of indicted1
Example Sentences
Former Louisville Metro police officer Brett Hankison was indicted on three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment for threatening the lives of Taylor’s neighbors when he fired bullets that went through Taylor’s apartment into theirs.
Instead, the jurors indicted former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison with “wanton endangerment.”
Lavin was indicted in 2014 when he worked as a Mercer County sheriff’s officer.
Tropical forests and peatlands are great storehouses of carbon dioxide, the main gas indicted in global warming.
Last year the attorney general indicted seven individuals over Eknelygoda’s abduction, and the trial is ongoing.
And he was indicted in Israel last week on charges he plotted to blow up sites holy to Islam.
No gun was found, and in this instance the cop was indicted.
The indicted are not going to show up at the federal courthouse in Pittsburgh to surrender to federal marshals.
Police officers are almost never indicted in grand jury proceedings compared to the general population.
Indeed, those committed to fighting for social justice are shocked when an officer is indicted.
In one of the cases a married woman was properly indicted for unlawfully selling intoxicating liquors.
In October, 1861, he was indicted by the Grand Jury, and his paper suppressed.
He was indicted in Dublin for conspiring with Shane, but the intention to try him there was abandoned.
Then he got indicted with others fer robbin' a little tannery that was operatin' down the crick.
Nobody could foresee what Braceway might imagine and exaggerate, even if it indicted and condemned his closest friend.
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