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  • noun Plural form of crimination.

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Examples

  • But when it came to the endless criminations and recriminations, the bitter arm-wrestling over history, my brain—like those of most Americans—glazed over.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • But when it came to the endless criminations and recriminations, the bitter arm-wrestling over history, my brain—like those of most Americans—glazed over.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • This, of course, led to criminations and recriminations, which eventuated in charges of incompetency preferred against him by C.ptain Edward O.C. Ord, of the Third Artillery.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • The finger-pointing has begun in what Rich Lowry calls “pre-criminations” for the inevitable pounding that Republicans will take on November 7.

    Waldo Jaquith - Republican meltdown: fiscal vs. social conservatives. 2006

  • Re-criminations might fly between diplomats, but he had no doubt that he and his staff would secure absolution early on in the inevitable follow-up investigation.

    The Howling Stones Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

  • A night later, off the coast of an island called Pan Tang, when the ship was safe from the dreadful re - criminations of the Dragon Masters and their beasts,

    The Weird Of The White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

  • A night later, off the coast of an island called Pan Tang, when the ship was safe from the dreadful re - criminations of the Dragon Masters and their beasts,

    The Weird of the White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

  • The things in reference whereunto your procedence is laden with such criminations as these sad days of recompense have found to be comets portending no less than blood, are first civil, then religious.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • And this I shall do (as I said before) merely in reference to those criminations which are laid by conjectural presumptions on your honourable assembly, and made a cause of much of that opposition and contradiction you meet withal.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • Far be it from me to apologize for truth itself, if seditious; -- only I abhor those false, malicious criminations, whereby God's people in these days wherein we live have exceedingly suffered.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

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