A recrimination is a counter-charge, and is typically legalese and is only used in court, by a defendant against a plaintiff. From Wordnik.com. [David Lee Roth: Amtrak FM « BuzzMachine] Reference
"recrimination" - said the Folkstone-based agency had assured her the couple moving into her two-bedroom property were pleasant and well behaved. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference
As for Abbot, this kind of recrimination was a daily thing with him. From Wordnik.com. [Sheppard Lee] Reference
Don't be fooled by this show of 'recrimination' against Israel's murderous practices. From Wordnik.com. [Signs of the Times] Reference
Then, however, without any kind of recrimination, any display of anger, or even any particular effort to regain her ascendency over him, she, on her side, imitated his example. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 1] Reference
As for whoever lost the phone, it’s hard to imagine what kind of recrimination that person will face from Apple. From Wordnik.com. [Is This Really the Next Apple iPhone?] Reference
Between others mutual recrimination may readily arise. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
The discovery didn't bring bitterness or recrimination. From Wordnik.com. [Brazilian Men Swapped At Birth Work, Live Together] Reference
At first he turned on Iémon with bitter recrimination. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
Mutual recrimination between Fox and Pitt followed this speech of. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
Excitement and whim give way to guilt and recrimination - or do they?. From Wordnik.com. [Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Freebie] Reference
The Petre family was itself swept up in the recrimination of the time. From Wordnik.com. [Catholic Revival] Reference
But it already has stumbled into a minefield of recrimination and distrust. From Wordnik.com. [Durban Bound] Reference
I'll not go gently, blessing enemies, hating recrimination to criminalize hate. From Wordnik.com. [She tolled me] Reference
Unfortunately there is a great tendency to make these evils worse by recrimination. From Wordnik.com. [Monopolies and the People] Reference
Give yourself permission to be human, to rest, to turn away from self-recrimination. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Cara Barker: 5 Steps to Get Your Life Back on Track] Reference
They decided, instead, to report Thuong's birth with a letter of self-recrimination. From Wordnik.com. [Vietnamese teens' thirst for college outpaces country's educational system] Reference
But it took place in a city in which recrimination is plentiful, inspiration all too rare. From Wordnik.com. [The Capital Gang] Reference
But today saw the 19th Commonwealth Games sinking only further into chaos and recrimination. From Wordnik.com. [Does this look ready to you? Chaos in run-up to Commonwealth Games] Reference
Some recrimination, and much grief on the one side -- some remorse, and much misery on the other. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
That's because I didn't set a budget, so I can avoid any nasty self-recrimination in the New Year. From Wordnik.com. [My Christmas Confessions] Reference
Good men will no longer waste their strength in mutual crimination or recrimination about the past. From Wordnik.com. [The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes] Reference
Connivance, collusion, condonation, recrimination, and other defences are not even mentioned therein. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886] Reference
In truth, we fell head and ears together, and accusation and recrimination were bandied from all sides. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2] Reference
He groaned in an agony of self-recrimination; he should not have allowed her to come on this mad voyage. From Wordnik.com. [Creatures of Vibration] Reference
We have concealed nothing of the truth, but we have set nothing down in malice, or with undue recrimination. From Wordnik.com. [American Prisoners of the Revolution] Reference
Much recrimination had passed, and the usually peaceful Imaizumi was in a most violent and truculent humour. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
But, as I say, something much deeper than any such recrimination lies behind the use of the word on either side. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
Upon this the two friends quarrel and exchange letters of mutual recrimination couched in the most elaborate language. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference
All was dark -- all was defiance and denunciation, crimination and recrimination -- brother's hand raised against brother. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
She was one of those women who, when face to face with disaster, think only of repairing it, without a word of recrimination. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"To me -- not of me!" but soon the natural anger against his insolence possesses her; she whelms him with a torrent of recrimination. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
Many feared that the end of that foreign war of men and machines meant the beginning of a domestic war of recrimination and reprisal. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
His reply, dated the same day, received the next morning, was absolutely and notoriously false, both in recrimination and explanation. From Wordnik.com. [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference
But in the middle of the recrimination that followed this turning state's evidence on the part of the Albany Lamb, the Cousin inquired. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
Reed had been feeling low, blaming himself ( "Maybe I coulda won another way," he mumbled), but the self-recrimination was unnecessary. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge To 2000] Reference
Crimination and recrimination were indulged in, censures and charges were made and denied, and on the whole the army began to be in rather. From Wordnik.com. [History of Kershaw's Brigade] Reference
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