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

Could I have borne to recriminate, I believed that I could have forced one of them to condemn another; but, oh! was divine truth sent us for discord and for condemnation?

From Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed by Newman, Francis William

But this is all past, let us not recriminate.

From Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by Leighton, John

"Oh, if we recriminate," I cheerfully said after a moment, "we agree."

From The Sacred Fount by James, Henry

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 Johnson, Samuel