Imputation

Noun

 * 1) The act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription.
 * 2) That which has been imputed or charged.
 * 3) Charge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach; insinuation.
 * 4)  A setting of something to the account of; the attribution of personal guilt or personal righteousness of another; as, the imputation of the sin of Adam, or the righteousness of Christ.
 * 5) Opinion; intimation; hint.

Related terms

 * imputability
 * imputable
 * imputableness
 * imputably
 * impute

Thesaurus
accounting for, accusal, accusation, accusing, adverse criticism, allegation, allegement, animadversion, answerability, application, arraignment, arrogation, ascription, aspersion, assignation, assignment, attachment, attaint, attribution, bad notices, bad press, badge of infamy, bar sinister, baton, bend sinister, bill of particulars, black eye, black mark, blame, blot, blur, brand, bringing of charges, bringing to book, broad arrow, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, censure, challenge, champain, charge, complaint, connection with, count, credit, criticism, delation, denouncement, denunciation, derivation from, disparagement, etiology, exception, faultfinding, flak, hairsplitting, hit, home thrust, honor, hostile criticism, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, impeachment, implication, indictment, information, innuendo, insinuation, knock, lawsuit, laying of charges, mark of Cain, nagging, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, obloquy, onus, overcriticalness, palaetiology, personal remark, personality, pestering, pettifogging, pillorying, placement, plaint, point champain, priggishness, prosecution, quibble, quibbling, rap, reference to, reflection, reprimand, reproach, reproachfulness, responsibility, saddling, slam, slur, sly suggestion, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, spot, stain, stigma, stigmatism, stigmatization, stricture, suggestion, suit, swipe, taint, taking exception, tarnish, taxing, trichoschistism, true bill, uncomplimentary remark, unspoken accusation, veiled accusation, whispering campaign

Etymology
From imputatio (ascribe)

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * German: Unterstellung


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: обвинение, вменение в вину


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 * German: Unterstellung
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