Rather, a sense of failure at home is apt to generate a peevish and recriminative attitude abroad. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Raspberries] Reference
Then he looked at her, and a feverish stream of words, half self-recriminative, half in self-defence, burst from his lips. From Wordnik.com. [Maurice Guest] Reference
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 were miraculously silent, and went into the passageway in a perfectly amiable manner. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
From this point the conversation became very contradictory in tone, then recriminative, and after that personally abusive. From Wordnik.com. [The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers] Reference
Indeed, the answers of Phillis and Mark on their examination are mutually recriminative, and amount to a plenary confession of the crime of each. From Wordnik.com. [The Trial and Execution, for Petit Treason, of Mark and Phillis, Slaves of Capt. John Codman Who Murdered Their Master at Charlestown, Mass., in 1755; for Which the Man Was Hanged and Gibbeted, and the Woman Was Burned to Death. Including, Also, Some Account of Other Punishments by Burning in Massachusetts] Reference
After a good deal of questioning on her part, and confused and recriminative statement on theirs, Marion made out the following as the facts of the case. From Wordnik.com. [The Vicar's Daughter] Reference
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 were miraculously silent, and went into the passageway in. From Wordnik.com. [Penrod and Sam] Reference
When there was nothing left, he hacked the rosewood furniture and made targets of the family portraits, in the mere wantonness of loot that, as a recriminative compliment, cannot be laid to the charge of any one period or section. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Lights and Shadows] Reference
You seem to have been aware of this yourself, considering the extreme precautions you have taken to deprive me of this resource; but as according to our French customs, any answer is an act of civility, I am not willing to concede the advantage of politeness -- besides, although silence is sometimes very significant, its eloquence is not understood by every one, and the public which has not leisure to analyze disputes (often of little interest) has a reasonable right to require at least some preliminary explanations; reserving to itself, should the discussion degenerate into the recriminative clamors of an irritated self-love, to allow the right of silence to him in whom it becomes the virtue of moderation. From Wordnik.com. [The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature] Reference
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