recriminate

Example Sentences

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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

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

But I want neither to recriminate nor expostulate; nor yet, Sir, to form excuses for my general conduct; for that you accuse not in the main—but be pleased, Sir, to read this letter.

From Pamela, Volume II by Richardson, Samuel

You know, my dear, the room he had given me to recriminate upon him in twenty instances.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Richardson, Samuel

May not we have leave to recriminate in this place?

From The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campell A Gentlen, who, tho' Deaf and Dumb, Writes down any Stranger's name at first Sight; by Defoe, Daniel