Allegation vs Sue - What's the difference?
allegation | sue |
An assertion, especially an accusation, not necessarily based on facts.
* {{quote-news, year=2011
, date=December 14
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, title=Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave
, work=Guardian
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, date=April 15
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, title=Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer
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The act of alleging.
To follow.
* , Bk.XIII, Ch.iv:
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , III.iv:
(label) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action.
(label) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
To clean (the beak, etc.).
To leave high and dry on shore.
To court.
As a noun allegation
is allegation.As a verb sue is
.allegation
English
Noun
(wikipedia allegation) (en noun)- She put forth several allegations regarding her partner in hopes of discrediting his actions.
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sue
English
Verb
- And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’
- though oft looking backward, well she vewd, / Her selfe freed from that foster insolent, / And that it was a knight, which now her sewd , / Yet she no lesse the knight feard, then that villein rude.
