recriminatory arguments. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
But there's every reason to expect that Americans will be in a recriminatory mood. From Wordnik.com. [David Fiderer: Republicans Are on a Different Planet, Posing Problems Into 2009] Reference
When he inquires as to whether she is okay after what seems to be a pretty recriminatory breakup, she accuses him of hitting on her. From Wordnik.com. [Review: Dark Avengers Annual #1 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News] Reference
And this, of course, usually led to recriminatory statements, and history was ransacked to find something consolatory to English pride. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference
Combined with his glumly parsimonious economic message, this social pessimism now makes him seem unappealingly bitter and recriminatory. From Wordnik.com. [Give the voters hope] Reference
Former State President P W Botha says he rejects any recriminatory actions which may be started through truth commissions and indemnity laws. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
But it earned the opprobrium of Germany, France and Russia, and developments elsewhere on the African continent exacerbated an already tense and recriminatory atmosphere. From Wordnik.com. ['World War I: The African Front'] Reference
Schoeman said it was tragic that an issue of this nature had been allowed to escalate in such a way and to have reached the proportions and recriminatory nature which it had. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
This naturally goaded Opposition into recriminatory retort. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, May 6, 1914] Reference
Dr. Ryerson took little part in such recriminatory warfare. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada] Reference
I now proceed, my Lords, to the next recriminatory charge, which is. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12)] Reference
Mrs. Coutts spent breakfast time in recriminatory remarks directed chiefly at me. From Wordnik.com. [The Saltmarsh Murders]
This retaliation prepares us for a whole series of recriminatory works of fiction. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 12, 1916] Reference
If they enter into conversation, it is usually of an ironical or recriminatory nature. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people] Reference
It was neither vindictive nor recriminatory, but cheerful and calm with an utter scorn. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Harry Revel] Reference
Thus much we have thought it necessary to say upon this part of the recriminatory charge of delay. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12)] Reference
My Lords, I next stated that this recriminatory charge consisted of two distinct parts, -- injustice and delay. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12)] Reference
They were disconsolate and mutually recriminatory when the outcome weakened Howard and therefore strengthened Blair. From Wordnik.com. [Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference
After swanning around boasting about their policies suddenly chagrined politicians get busy with recriminatory legislation. From Wordnik.com. [Safehaven] Reference
The recriminatory charges of the Company's agents on the native merchants have made very little impression on your Committee. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12)] Reference
There are no shortage of recriminatory theories for President Obama's precipitous fall from would-be messiah, to near pariah. From Wordnik.com. [The Absurd Report] Reference
He fairly jumped when she cut short a question of his with a volley of self-recriminatory truths, accompanied with fierce gesturing. From Wordnik.com. [The Portion of Labor] Reference
I'm sorry that the thread has descended into train-wreckiness, but I suggest that you ignore the recriminatory and holier-than-thou responses. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Campus] Reference
But the extreme recriminatory power of the next leg down in social mood suggests that Goldman's dealings will become a lighting rod for public discontent. From Wordnik.com. [Recent Commentaries | Safehaven.com] Reference
This need not take the form of moving either to the left or to the centre, which is the form this recriminatory debate usually takes after a Democratic loss. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
And they left the tent together, this pot-bellied man and florid woman, in the antipathetic, recriminatory mood of the average husband and wife of Christendom. From Wordnik.com. [Jude the Obscure] Reference
Tagged with yellowed, typewritten curator's cards (also translated from the Spanish), these echt-archaeological finds are angry, grotesque, recriminatory little demons. From Wordnik.com. [Seattle Weekly | Complete Issue] Reference
It was my idea for our holiday group to stay in the UK and every cloudy, rainy, windswept morning I would come down to a kitchen full of wet clothes and recriminatory looks. From Wordnik.com. [Arts & Ecology blog] Reference
Instead of defending himself, he has, with a degree of insolence unparalleled in the history of pride and guilt, cast out a recriminatory accusation upon the House of Commons. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12)] Reference
I must now call your Lordships 'attention from the vaunted services of the prisoner, which have been urged to convict us of ingratitude, to another part of his recriminatory defence. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12)] Reference
During all these weeks, while Aberdeen was maturely considering, and while Prince Schwarzenberg was making his secretaries hunt up recriminatory cases against England, Mr. Gladstone was growing impatient. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859] Reference
English officers in favor of these women; and by the same means the letters of the latter accusing the former are come to your hands: and now these same English officers come here with their recriminatory accusation. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12)] Reference
The Las Vegas native, the game's colorful, petulant showman, before succumbing to the stabilizing influence of fellow great Steffi Graf, did not expect the recriminatory reaction from many in the game, as well as fans. From Wordnik.com. [The Jakarta Post Breaking News] Reference
A recriminatory discussion, 'and he resigned himself to his fate. From Wordnik.com. [Lord George Bentinck A Political Biography] Reference
I had no idea she’d pull a stunt like that,’ he admitted, with a self-recriminatory grimace as their eyes meshed. From Wordnik.com. [The Carides Pregnancy]
294. recriminatory charges against the House of Commons, xi. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12)] Reference
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