Sentence examples for veiled accusation from inspiring English sources
"veiled accusation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is used to describe an accusation that is hidden or not openly stated. It is often used in situations where someone is indirectly implying or insinuating something without directly stating it. Example: During the meeting, the CEO made several veiled accusations towards the marketing team, hinting that their recent campaign was not effective enough.
On Friday, after a rehabilitation game in Trenton, he made a thinly veiled accusation that the Yankees and M.L.B. were conspiring to "cancel" his contract.
In a televised speech, India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh, blamed forces "based outside this country" in a thinly veiled accusation that Pakistan was involved.
Force India's deputy team principal Bob Fernley accused the sport's owner, CVC, which employs Bernie Ecclestone to run its commercial side, and the leading teams of an "agenda" - a thinly veiled accusation that he thinks they want to introduce a system where the leading teams supply cars to the smaller ones.
That's a thinly veiled accusation that cities aren't concerned about the environment.
This wasn't a veiled accusation, since Fisher and Schwartz were the only teammates he didn't name.
It pointedly asked, "So what are they afraid of?" It is a good question, a veiled accusation that Ms. Gillibrand is not ready to compete.
Many of his plays revolve around thinly veiled accusations directed at Western governments.
It was sweet and kind — and private — or, as the New York Post put it, with thinly veiled accusations of wimpiness, "disgustingly sappy".
Mr. Ouattara's party, the Rally of Republicans, protested thinly veiled accusations in the government press that it was behind the failed power grab, demanding that Mr. Gbagbo's officials provide proof of the charge.
It harks back to a pre-1956 style of drama, in which discontented privileged people hurl veiled accusations at each other as if in some deadly competition to prove they are more unhappy than anyone else.
In a letter to a friend in 1498, Machiavelli writes of listening to the sermons of Girolamo Savonarola (1452 98), a Dominican friar who moved to Florence in 1482 and in the 1490s attracted a party of popular supporters with his thinly veiled accusations against the government, the clergy, and the pope.
