Usage examples (9)

• Rather, a sense of failure at home is apt to generate a peevish and recriminative attitude abroad.
• Then he looked at her, and a feverish stream of words, half self-recriminative, half in self-defence, burst from his lips.
• Each declared that he would "rather die than be talked to death"; and then, as the two approached a point bluntly recriminative, Whitey coughed again, whereupon they...
• From this point the conversation became very contradictory in tone, then recriminative, and after that personally abusive.