Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of criminating, in any sense of the word; accusation; charge.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of accusing; accusation; charge; complaint.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An accusation of wrongdoing, a recrimination

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Examples

  • The newspapers are so full of criticism and discussion of crimination and recrimination regarding Brest, and are so prone that I should like very much, if you have time in your very busy days to drop me a line, that you would write me as to the situation as it is now.

    Devil Dog David Talbot 2010

  • Of course a great row occurred as to who was to blame, and many arrests and trials took place, but there had been such an interchanging of cap numbers and other insignia that it was next to impossible to identify the guilty, and so much crimination and acrimony grew out of the affair that it was deemed best to drop the whole matter.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • The constable cautioned him to say nothing, as it seems is laid down in their orders, for fear of crimination.

    Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Aunt Emmeline was still averse to her niece, but she abstained from crimination.

    Ayala's Angel 2004

  • He was fated to encounter and to display the carping and the crimination that always attend the gloom of a darkening cause.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • He was fated to encounter and to display the carping and the crimination that always attend the gloom of a darkening cause.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • Obviously the first part, the employment, will be enforced by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, our main agency dealing with employment dis - crimination.

    Employment Equity from the U.S. Perspective 1991

  • Aunt Emmeline was still averse to her niece, but she abstained from crimination.

    Ayala's Angel 1993

  • He was fated to encounter and to display the carping and the crimination that always attend the gloom of a darkening cause.

    Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

  • He was fated to encounter and to display the carping and the crimination that always attend the gloom of a darkening cause.

    Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

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