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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of recriminate.

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Examples

  • In his grief Victor has sworn to continue to fight against corruption and he recriminates against President Chavez for not showing enough political will to confront violent crime in Venezuela.

    VENEZUELA: Son of a revolutionary friend shot dead outside his home at 7:00 a.m. 2009

  • She urges, appeals, reproaches, for a practical end, but she never recriminates.

    Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893

  • Before his thoughts can flow, he must fix his eye on an imaginary miscreant, who gives unlimited scope for lecturing, and recriminates just enough to keep the spring of admonition and argument going to the extent of nine books.

    The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete George Eliot 1849

  • As to Madame de Fischtaminel, who is, in fact, connected with the affair, as you shall see, she, being unable to recriminate, abstains from words and recriminates in acts.

    Analytical Studies Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • As to Madame de Fischtaminel, who is, in fact, connected with the affair, as you shall see, she, being unable to recriminate, abstains from words and recriminates in acts.

    Petty Troubles of Married Life, Complete Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • No longer the sneaking tone of apology; no longer the modest allegations that the commissioner was misinformed; -- he boldly accuses the representative of English government of forgery in order to destroy him; he criminates and recriminates, and lays about him without mercy.

    The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

  • When the groups meet, each penitentially recriminates itself by shouting out an example of its particular brand of lustfulness ” the homosexuals with "Sodom and Gomorrah," and the overardent heterosexuals, like Guinizzelli and the "miglior fabbro," the Provençal poet Arnaut Daniel, with the words "Pasiphaë enters into the cow,/So that the bull can hasten to her lust" (26.40 “ 42).

    Not Bisexual D'Epiro, Peter 2001

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