Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. The act of recriminating.
- n. A countercharge.
- n. Law A defense in an action for divorce in which the accused party makes a similar accusation, as of adultery or cruelty, against the plaintiff.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. The act of recriminating.
- n. A counter or mutual accusation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The act of recriminating; an accusation brought by the accused against the accuser; a counter accusation.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of recriminating; the meeting of an accusation by a counter-accusation: as, to indulge in mutual recriminations.
- n. In law, an accusation, brought by an accused person against the accuser, of being in a similar guilt as charged, or derelict in a corresponding duty; a counter-accusation.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. mutual accusations
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Examples
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Either course of action will bring short-term howls of recrimination from the right ... but this mini-surge deeper into the quagmire is going to sink the administration without question. declining 35 percent approval rating for management of the war in Afghanistan
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A recrimination is a counter-charge, and is typically legalese and is only used in court, by a defendant against a plaintiff.
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"recrimination" - said the Folkstone-based agency had assured her the couple moving into her two-bedroom property were pleasant and well behaved.
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Disingenuous appeals of "trust me" on the pages of the Washington Post aren't going to stop what Panetta calls "recrimination" that will supposedly cause the brave men and women of the CIA to "pay a price."
Frank Naif: CIA Director Panetta: Reform Suffers for Bush Apparatchiks and Spy Chiefs
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WOODRUFF: I think there's going to be every which kind of recrimination you can imagine. there's going to be somebody from every corner saying, "Well, if you'd only done this," or, "If you'd only done that" -- that's to be expected after a loss as heartbreaking as this one.
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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.
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He had not intended this kind of recrimination, but he was exasperated with her wearied acceptance of his reproaches and by a sudden conviction that his long-cherished grievance against her now that he had voiced it was inadequate, mean, and trifling.
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As for Abbot, this kind of recrimination was a daily thing with him.
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Don't be fooled by this show of 'recrimination' against Israel's murderous practices.
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All the should, coulda, toldja recrimination which is the netleft's specialty, particularly when there's no way of knowing how things would have gone had we done what they demanded in the well-thought out comments they dash off between work assignments, doesn't change the facts as they are now.
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