recriminate
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“I do not condemn, I do not recriminate, and I do not criticize Minister Mandetta,” Bolsonaro told reporters at the Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2020
Do not let us recriminate, Lady Kirton, or on some scores I might reproach you.
From Elster's Folly by Wood, Henry, Mrs.
But this is all past, let us not recriminate.
From Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by Leighton, John
She forbears to recriminate by discussing the question of the propriety of attempting such a reënforcement at all, as well as of the disguised and secret manner in which it was intended to be effected.
From The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Davis, Jefferson
The son of the author of the Night Thoughts was not old enough, when they were written, to recriminate, or to be a father.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel
She criminated Charles, and Charles recriminated and threatened her, and for one night the palace was filled with the noise and uproar of the quarrel.
From History of King Charles the Second of England by Abbott, Jacob
Thus the unhappy pair unavailingly recriminated, till my cousin Hervey entered, and, with Mrs. Norton, conducted up to her own chamber the inconsolable mother.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 by Richardson, Samuel
On the other hand, Whitfield, who had been accustomed to bear reproach and face opposition, recriminated with double acrimony and greater success.
From An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2 by Hewatt, Alexander
This Mr. Carlile never understood: he wounded, he disparaged, he recriminated.
From Life and Character of Richard Carlile by Holyoake, George Jacob
Such are some of the personalities with which Decker recriminated.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac
I think it’s possible to discuss this honestly, even if it causes your wife pain, without simply berating or recriminating.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2019
The recriminating thought flashed over him that he alone was the cause of this.
From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis
The solemn voice that had croaked "S-o-m-e time!" so frequently, took to monotonous, recriminating speech.
From The Lookout Man by Bower, B. M.
Each now commenced giving a confused version of the affair, criminating and recriminating in a manner that only served to increase the disgrace to which it attached.
From The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter by Adams, F. Colburn (Francis Colburn)
Clarissa to Miss Howe.—A recriminating conversation between her and Lovelace.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Richardson, Samuel
