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

Still, I declined to be led into further discussion, or to recriminate in kind, so that ultimately I came to feel strong as one does who is intentionally weak before her enemy.

From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey

There they stood, face to face, each detected in his dishonor and iniquity, and on that account disqualified to recriminate upon each other, for their mutual perfidy.

From The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William

Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

And then how I should like to recriminate, and defend myself indignantly!

From Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century by Paston, George