Tending to criminate; serving as an accusation or producing incriminating evidence.
From criminate + -ive (suffix indicating tendency or capacity). Created in legal English to describe the quality of accusations and evidence.
A 'criminative statement' is one that tends to accuse or implicate—it's the kind of remark that makes a lawyer's ears perk up because it's damaging to a defendant.
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