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
To recriminate now, he said, would be as exasperating as unavailable.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 by Samuel Richardson
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 Samuel Richardson
At the beginning of the Fifth Night we find; Lorenzo! to recriminate is just; I grant the man is vain who writes for praise.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Samuel Johnson
Besides, he might come and begin a string of abuse or complainings; I’m certain I should recriminate, and God knows where we should end!
From Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
This Mr. Carlile never understood: he wounded, he disparaged, he recriminated.
From Life and Character of Richard Carlile by George Jacob Holyoake
Evidently he paid court to her with so much success that he turned from her and recriminated himself for having his passion aroused by a counterfeit.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers by Elbert Hubbard
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
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
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
What a recriminating, what a reproachful way, my dear, was this, of putting a question of this nature!
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Samuel Richardson
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
Then came a long criminating and recriminating chapter.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 03 by Maria Edgeworth
Recrim′inātive, Recrim′inātory, recriminating or retorting accusations or charges.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
