fingerpointer

fingerpointer (plural fingerpointers)

1. Alternative form of finger-pointer.
   • 1947 December 10, Wear [pseudonym], “My Wild Irish Rose (Color—Musical)”, in Variety, volume 169, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Variety, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12, column 2:

     Film comes at a time when bluenose fingerpointers have had certain recent pix under fire; […]

   • 1999 September, Scott Edelman, “Editorial: An imagination is a terrible thing to waste.”, in Scott Edelman, editor, Science Fiction Age, volume 7, number 6, Reston, Va., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, column 2:

     As with Prohibition, all such legislative attempts have failed. And all future attempts will fail again. There may be success in the passage of laws, but once more, as ever before, human behavior will go on. That is because the fingerpointers want to believe that violence in real life is caused by violence in art, when it is and has always been the other way around.

   • 2007 [1992 August 17], Ronald Reagan, “America’s Best Days are Yet to Come”, in Shane Borrowman, Edward M[ichael] White, editors, The Promise of America, New York, N.Y.: Pearson Longman, →ISBN, page 567:

     But where they see only problems, I see possibilities as vast and diverse as the American family itself. Even as we meet, the rest of the world is astounded by the pundits and fingerpointers who are so down on us as a nation.

   • 2016, Cheryl Samelson Skid, “Introduction”, in Never Out of His Sight: Learning to Discern the Voices, Georgetown, Del.: Fruitbearer Publishing, →ISBN, page xv:

     There are fingerpointers in our lives, as well—cruel and blatant accusations and deceptions of the enemy of our souls. Satan, the hater of God and all that is good, sets out to separate us from God the moment we are placed in the womb. Both are included in my story—footprints and fingerpointers.