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 recriminate; that biting strain Backward and forward will saw love in twain.
From A Century of Emblems by G. S. Cautley
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
Michel Ardan interfered before the two enemies had time to recriminate.
From The Moon-Voyage by Jules Verne
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 Samuel Richardson
The Lutherans, were not behind hand with their adversaries, in acrimony, of style; they recriminated with vehemence, and charged their accusers with instances of misconduct, different in kind, but equally condemnable.
From The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands by Charles Butler
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
For well know I, that she could have recriminated upon me with a vengeance.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Samuel Richardson
Such are some of the personalities with which Decker recriminated.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
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
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 solemn voice that had croaked "S-o-m-e time!" so frequently, took to monotonous, recriminating speech.
From The Lookout Man by B. M. Bower
But the pious archbishop made answer that he never would inflame a dispute by recriminating against a brother, whatever might have seemed prudent to be done at another season.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
Recriminā′tion, the act of recriminating or returning one accusation by another: a countercharge or accusation.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
He will never dream of recriminating a past which was dictated by such imperious necessities.
From The Psychology of Revolution by Gustave Le Bon
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