Usually means: Assigning blame to others directly.
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  1. finger-pointing: Merriam-Webster
  2. finger-pointing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. finger-pointing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. finger-pointing: Vocabulary.com
  5. Finger-Pointing, Finger-pointing, finger-pointing: Wordnik
  6. finger-pointing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. finger-pointing: Wiktionary
  8. finger-pointing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. finger-pointing: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. finger-pointing: Dictionary.com
  11. finger-pointing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. finger-pointing: Rhymezone
  13. finger-pointing: FreeDictionary.org
  14. finger-pointing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. finger-pointing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (finger-pointing)

▸ noun:  (informal) The making of accusations; the assigning of blame.

Similar:
fingerpointing, fault-finding, scapegoating, blame game, piling on, imputation, pot calling the kettle black, momism, interaccusation, blameshifting, more...

Opposite:
accountability, responsibility, ownership

Phrases:
finger-pointing syndrome, more...

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Similar:
fingerpointing, fault-finding, scapegoating, blame game, piling on, imputation, pot calling the kettle black, momism, interaccusation, blameshifting, more...

Opposite:
accountability, responsibility, ownership

Phrases:
finger-pointing syndrome, more...



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