N. due, dueness, right, privilege,
prerogative,
prescription, title, claim, pretension, demand,
birthright,
immunity,
license, liberty,
franchise, vested interest, vested right, sanction, authority,
warranty, charter, warrant, constitution, tenure, bond,
claimant,
appellant,
plaintiff V. be due, to, be the due, of, have right to, have title to, have claim to, be entitled to, have a claim upon, belong to, deserve, merit, be worthy of, richly deserve, demand, claim, call upon for, come upon for, appeal to for,
revendicate, reclaim, exact, insist on, insist upon,
challenge, take one's stand, make a point of, require, lay claim to, assert, assume,
arrogate, make good,
substantiate, vindicate a claim, vindicate a right, fit for, qualify for, make out a case, give a right, confer a right,
entitle,
authorize,
sanctify,
legalize,
ordain,
prescribe,
allot, give every one his due, pay one's dues, have one's due, have one's rights, use a right, assert,
enforce, put in force, lay under contribution
Adj. having a right to, entitled to, claiming, deserving, meriting, worthy of, privileged, allowed, sanctioned, warranted, authorized, ordained, prescribed, constitutional, chartered,
enfranchised,
prescriptive,
presumptive, absolute,
indefeasible,
unalienable,
inalienable,
imprescriptible,
inviolable,
unimpeachable, unchallenged,
sacrosanct, due to, merited, deserved,
condign, richly deserved, allowable, lawful,
licit, legitimate, legal,
legalized, square, unexceptionable, right,
equitable, due, en r gle, fit, fitting, correct, proper, meet,
befitting, becoming, seemly,
decorous, creditable, up to the mark, right as a trivet, just the thing, quite the thing, selon les r gles
Phr. civis romanus sum, chaque saint sa chandelle
N. accusation, charge,
imputation,
slur,
inculpation,
exprobration,
delation,
crimination,
incrimination, accrimination,
recrimination, tu quoque argument,
invective,
denunciation,
denouncement,
libel,
challenge,
citation,
arraignment,
impeachment,
appeachment,
indictment, bill of indictment, true bill,
lawsuit,
condemnation, gravamen of a charge, head and front of one's offending, argumentum ad hominem,
scandal,
scandalum magnatum,
accuser,
prosecutor,
plaintiff,
relator, informer,
appellant, accused,
defendant, prisoner,
perpetrator,
panel,
respondent,
litigant V. accuse, charge, tax,
impute,
twit, taunt with, reproach, brand with reproach,
stigmatize,
slur, cast a stone at, cast a slur on,
incriminate,
criminate,
inculpate,
implicate, call to account, 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, 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,
accusatory,
accusative,
imputative,
denunciatory,
recriminatory,
criminatory, accused, 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 Phr. "the breath of accusation kills an innocent name", "thou can'st not say i did it", 3, moral conditions
Int. look at home, tu quoque
