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Recriminate   Listen
verb
Recriminate  v. i.  To return one charge or accusation with another; to charge back fault or crime upon an accuser. "It is not my business to recriminate, hoping sufficiently to clear myself in this matter."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Recriminate" Quotes from Famous Books



... enjoyed each other's dim depths. If I wanted to fawn on you," she went on, "I might say that, with such a comrade in obliquity to wind and double about with, I'd risk losing myself in the mine. But why retort or recriminate? Let us not, for God's sake, be vulgar—we haven't yet, bad as it is, come to THAT. I CAN be, no doubt—I some day MUST be: I feel it looming at me out of the awful future as an inevitable fate. But let it be for when I'm old ...
— The Awkward Age • Henry James



Words linked to "Recriminate" :   recriminative, recriminatory, impeach, criminate, incriminate, accuse



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