Sample sentences for RECRIMINATIONS

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Definition

mutual accusations (criticizing and blaming each other)

There was a flurry of finger-pointing and recriminations.

Besides, he might come and begin a string of abuse or complainings; I'm certain I should recriminate, and God knows where we should end!
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights

recriminate = criticize back

If somebody'd of come in and took a look, men watching a blank TV, a fifty-year-old woman hollering and squealing at the back of their heads about discipline and order and recriminations, they'd of thought the whole bunch was crazy as loons.
Ken Kesey -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

recriminations = mutual accusations (criticizing and blaming each other)

"Now, no recriminations," Lori told him.
Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
The question wasn't recriminatory.
Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
There would be no recriminations.
Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
I had not raked up a single recrimination.
Richard Wright -- Black Boy

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

I'm waiting for her tirade, her recriminations, all the things I have coming.
Gayle Forman -- Where She Went
] Blanche [as if to herself]; Crumble and fade and — regrets — recriminations ... 'If you'd done this, it wouldn't 've cost me that!'
Tennessee Williams -- A Streetcar Named Desire
"Oh, Alexey Alexandrovitch, for heaven's sake, don't let us indulge in recriminations!
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
He was determined to put the case baldly, without vain recrimination or excuse.
Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence

She mingled her story with recriminations against Lheureux, to which the notary replied from time to time with some insignificant word.
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
And after that time had passed, I returned to my cycle of recriminations.
Roger Zelazny -- Nine Princes in Amber
Surely, Peter, you don't want me to start some sort of recriminations?
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
But this led to a long recrimination upon a great many sore subjects, charges, and counter-charges.
Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby

Mutual recrimination passed between them: they parted in anger, and were never reconciled.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

What do these recriminations prove, Ana?
George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
He had feared some terrible scene of jealousy or recrimination.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King

There had been recriminations of uselessness as we rode.
Megan Whalen Turner -- The Thief
What he gives in brains he takes away with phoney recriminations.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy

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