imputation

imputation
    n 1: a statement attributing something dishonest (especially a
         criminal offense); "he denied the imputation"
    2: the attribution to a source or cause; "the imputation that my
       success was due to nepotism meant that I was not taken
       seriously"
    

Imputation \Im`pu*ta"tion\, [L. imputatio an account, a charge:
   cf. F. imputation.]
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   1. The act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription;
      also, anything imputed or charged.
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            Shylock. Antonio is a good man.
            Bassanio. Have you heard any imputation to the
            contrary?                             --Shak.
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            If I had a suit to Master Shallow, I would humor his
            men with the imputation of being near their master.
                                                  --Shak.
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   2. Charge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach;
      insinuation.
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            Let us be careful to guard ourselves against these
            groundless imputation of our enemies. --Addison.
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   3. (Theol.) 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.
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   4. Opinion; intimation; hint.
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Imputation
is used to designate any action or word or thing as reckoned to
a person. Thus in doctrinal language (1) the sin of Adam is
imputed to all his descendants, i.e., it is reckoned as theirs,
and they are dealt with therefore as guilty; (2) the
righteousness of Christ is imputed to them that believe in him,
or so attributed to them as to be considered their own; and (3)
our sins are imputed to Christ, i.e., he assumed our
"law-place," undertook to answer the demands of justice for our
sins. In all these cases the nature of imputation is the same
(Rom. 5:12-19; comp. Philemon 1:18, 19).
    

130 Moby Thesaurus words for "imputation":
      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