indirect evidence that tends to establish a conclusion by inference
Compare direct evidence
circumstantial evidence in American English
Law
that evidence which is offered to prove certain attendant circumstances from which the existence of the fact at issue may be inferred; indirect evidence
Examples of 'circumstantial evidence' in a sentence
circumstantial evidence
There is no shortage of circumstantial evidence to suggest the latter.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Detectives who reopened murder files in 2002 could at first find only circumstantial evidence against him.
The Sun (2012)
If you seek proof of this change, you can find circumstantial evidence in some of the records fromthe bad days that still stand.