fingered
v.to touch or move something with your fingers. It can also mean to point at someone as the person who did something wrong.
v.to touch, feel, or handle something with the fingers; in a figurative sense, to identify or point out a person as a suspect or culprit. Transitive — requires a direct object.
“She fingered the soft silk of the dress.”
“The witness fingered the suspect in the lineup, claiming he was the one who stole the bag.”
“He nervously fingered the loose thread on his sleeve while the detective questioned him about his whereabouts on the night of the crime.”
The verb is transitive and takes a direct object.
“Cross-referencing these three data sources, the researchers traced the rise and fall of businesses fingered for false reviews.”
From finger + -ed.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.