0 a situation in which someone is blamed for something that goes wrong:
1 the action of blaming particular people:
What ought to be a thoughtful exercise in learning and improvement becomes an exercise in finger-pointing.
To this end, she will patiently demolish the idea that the term mixte should be used to single out people, a categorization which may lead to harmful finger-pointing in society.
This is not a time for recrimination or finger-pointing.
The emphasis he put on his finger-pointing, therefore, lost its meaning.
There has been too much finger-pointing, which is most unhelpful.
Its mission should be undertaken with great care and discernment lest it become a finger-pointing and preachy body.
The achievement of such compatibility is an exercise in partnership and cooperation, in consensus, confidence and interoperability-building, not in advocacy, lecturing and finger-pointing.
As one of my colleagues said, there was a lot of finger-pointing and blaming of other people, which was counterproductive.