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recriminationre‧crim‧i‧na‧tion /rɪˌkrɪməˈneɪʃən/ noun [countable usually plural, uncountable] recriminationOrigin: 1600-1700 Medieval Latin recriminatio, from recriminare, from Latin criminari ‘to accuse’ - We promised each other there would be no recriminations if it didn't work out.
- And so began a chain of events, of misunderstandings, laughter, anger, and bitter recrimination.
- In January and February 1985 it collapsed amidst tremendous local recriminations, directed primarily and almost entirely at strikebreakers.
- She brought Pilade into their bed and refused to send him out and the night was passed in mutual recriminations.
- The confessions, recriminations and bubbling bile of this long night's drinking into dawn make for increasingly compulsive viewing.
- The discovery of unfaithfulness is followed by anger and recriminations, anguish and uncertainty.
- This is because it is so good at avoiding runs of mutual recrimination.
- When he struggled to find winners at the start of the season, the cries of gleeful recrimination reached a crescendo.
when people blame each other► recriminations a situation in which people are blaming each other: · Family life had become unbearable for her - the arguments, the recriminations, the accusations - so she left.· Smith's widow and son have traded recriminations since his death in August. 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 set for years of mutual mistrust and recrimination.· This, as we have seen, helps to damp down what might otherwise become long and damaging runs of mutual recrimination.· This means that runs of mutual recrimination are nipped in the bud.· Hence the need to avoid mutual recriminations, facile accusations and scapegoats.· We spend the rest of the night in mutual recrimination.· Instead, there was the dreary return to mutual recrimination. when you blame or criticize someone for something that has happened: Bitter accusations and recriminations followed the disaster. |