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
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 Jefferson Davis
Instead of saying, Mea culpa, we began to recriminate, and find fault with everything and everybody.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 by Various
And then how I should like to recriminate and defend myself indignantly!
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis
Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Such are some of the personalities with which Decker recriminated.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
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 Jacob Abbott
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 Alexander Hewatt
He complains especially of his tutors, and in one case with abundant reason; but, by his own confession, they might have recriminated with justice, for he indulged in gay society, and kept late hours.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" by Various
In November, Thomas Spurdance, one of queen Mary's servants, was brought before the chancellor of Norwich, who, among his interrogations, was severely recriminated upon by the prisoner.
From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe
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
Clarissa to Miss Howe.—A recriminating conversation between her and Lovelace.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Samuel Richardson
Then came a long criminating and recriminating chapter.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 03 by Maria Edgeworth
And at it they went, criminating and recriminating, until the empty carriage was driven away, and the policemen took them by the shoulders and pushed them into the station house.
From Self-Raised Or, From the Depths by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
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 F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
