Antonyms for circumstantial evidencecir·cum·stan·tial ev·i·dence

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1. circumstantial evidence, indirect evidencenoun

   evidence providing only a basis for inference about the fact in dispute

   Antonyms:
   direct evidence

   Synonyms:
   indirect evidence

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1. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff:

   Some employees working for Petrobras did engage in corruption or acts of corruption, the circumstantial evidence that is available from the prosecutors are pretty substantial.

2. Henri Barkey:

   There is circumstantial evidence that people close to Fethullah Gulen were involved in the coup, but this was a coup that was not just related to Fethullah Gulen, but a coalition of different officers, each of whom had their own reasons to participate, it does n’t mean that Fethullah Gulen did have a hand, it does n’t mean that Fethullah Gulen did not. We don’t know.

3. Henry David Thoreau:

   Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

4. Ziv Cohen:

   That, again, is circumstantial evidence, but it could point to something that's more suggestive of intimate partner violence.

5. Ian Harrison:

   The whole of the circumstantial evidence satisfies me that Mr Dawson is dead, that Mr Dawson died on or about 8 January 1982, and that Mr Dawson did not voluntarily abandon Mr Dawson home, i'm satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the only rational inference that the circumstances enable me to draw is that Mr Dawson died or on about 8 January 1982 as the result of a conscious and voluntary act committed by Mr Dawson with the intention of causing Mr Dawson death.

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