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
May not we have leave to recriminate in this place?
From The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campell A Gentlen, who, tho' Deaf and Dumb, Writes down any Stranger's name at first Sight; by Daniel Defoe
Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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 Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2 by Samuel Johnson
But it was useless to dwell on the past or to recriminate.
From Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France
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
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
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
"It's all your fault," the district attorney recriminated bitterly.
From The Rider of Golden Bar by William Patterson White
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
After a few recriminating retorts to Jan's arguments, which he received as equably as though they had been compliments, Sibylla subsided into sullen silence.
From Verner's Pride by Mrs. Henry Wood
Maria, half asleep in the maternal arms, did not hear it, apparently, but the other two children exchanged sudden, recriminating glances.
From The Extra Day by Algernon Blackwood
But," he continued, pursuing his restless walk, "again to use your own phraseology, I am not merely recriminating.
From The Light of Scarthey by Egerton Castle
He said in a bitter, recriminating tone, "You don't know what you are talking about," and left her standing there, the tears frozen in her eyes.
From The Bent Twig by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
