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Recriminatory

Recriminatory \Re*crim"i*na*to*ry\ (-n?*t?*r?), a. [Cf. F. r['e]criminatoire.] Having the quality of recrimination; retorting accusation; recriminating.

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recriminatory

a. In the way of recriminations.

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recriminatory

adj. countering one charge with another; "recriminatory arguments" [syn: recriminative]

Usage examples of "recriminatory".

The discomfited Stossen expedition, returning in recriminatory but otherwise orderly retreat from the unyielding obstacle of the locked door, came to a sudden halt at the gate dividing the paddock from the gooseberry garden.

Presented to him in these simple words, it checked the recriminatory speech which, his mind having recovered to some extent from the first shock of the meeting, he had intended to deliver.

Not only was their new victim guilt-racked and histrionic, it was also recriminatory to a point of hysteria.

Stephen Maturin was not afraid of any vulgar betrayal, nor was he afraid for his skin, because he did not value it: but he had so suffered from the incalculable tensions, rancour and hatreds that arise from the failure of a rebellion that he could not bear any further disappointment, any further hostile, recriminatory confrontation, any fresh example of a friend grown cold, or worse.

Coutts spent breakfast time in recriminatory remarks directed chiefly at me.

Reivich cleanly, without turning it into some kind of recriminatory bloodbath.