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recrimination

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In law , recrimination is a defense in an action for divorce in which the accused party makes a similar accusation against the plaintiff . In plain English , it is a lawyer way of saying " You too ." Recrimination was generally considered by family law ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE mutual ▪ She brought Pilade into their bed and refused to send him out and the night was passed in mutual recriminations . ▪ This is because it is so good at avoiding runs of mutual recrimination . ▪ The stage was ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. mutual accusations

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of recriminate. 2 A counter or mutual accusation.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from French récrimination , from Medieval Latin recriminationem (nominative recriminatio ), noun of action from past participle stem of recriminari (see recriminate ).

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recrimination \Re*crim`i*na"tion\ (-n?"sh?n), n. [F. r['e]crimination, LL. recriminatio.] The act of recriminating; an accusation brought by the accused against the accuser; a counter accusation. Accusations and recriminations passed backward and forward ...

Usage examples of recrimination.

However, if we must indulge in recriminations, allow me to say that you are hardly blameless yourself Henry smiled slightly.

Even that old cynic, Pastour, realized that it was not the time for recriminations or political infighting.

By these preconcerted recriminations, they escaped all suspicion of collusion.

Even Simpson and his coterie, for once, refrained from their usual recriminations and protests.

Now that Aunt Teresa has passed away, an event which occurred on almost the same day as Aunt Agata the Canoness died, only Fiammetta remains to offer recriminations.

Remorseful Prober is like Naive Prober, except that it takes active steps to break out of runs of alternating recrimination.

This brought out all of the differences among them, and the conference collapsed in squabbling and recriminations.

The Carolina attack, which was to have co-operated with that of the Heidelbergers, was never delivered, through difficulties of the ground, and considerable recriminations ensued among the Boers in consequence.

It had been a long day: there had been nothing but dramas and recriminations.

There were other shops where extravagantly-incurred bills had furnished material for those frequently recurring scenes of recrimination, and the Colonial outfitters, where, as he had phrased it in whimsical mockery, he had bought grave-clothes for his burying-alive.

It was an awe-filled quietness in which she watched her mind throw off restraint and drag up from its deep chambers repressed recriminations of the last three and a half years.

The two troopers gave up and stood panting in the tracks, their shouts of recrimination and anger dwindled and then were lost.

Everything the girls could possibly want was provided, a beautiful suite on the third floor schoolroom, playroom, bedroom with four-poster beds under flowered canopies, paired cocker spaniel puppies, Chestnut and Cinnamon, matched ponies to ride on the grounds and in the hilly woods just beyond the stone walls, a perennially changing cast of servants, hastily paid off to avoid recriminations.

It was not, he concluded, an affair of connubial recriminations, which might typically have disrupted a typical taciturnity.

He listened, tried to remonstrate quietly with her and point out her lack of logic and the injustice and baselessness of her recriminations.