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Definition of Recriminative
1. Adjective. Countering one charge with another. "Recriminatory arguments"
Similar to: Inculpative, Inculpatory
Derivative terms: Recriminate, Recriminate
Definition of Recriminative
1. a. Recriminatory.
Definition of Recriminative
1. Adjective. recriminatory ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Recriminative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recriminative
Literary usage of Recriminative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Historical Review by American Historical Association (1903)
"... and opening against M. de Lambert a pack of recriminative lies, almost convincing
by force of his eloquent effrontery. It was this action that dictated ..."
2. A Guide to the Best Fiction in English by William Winter, George Saintsbury, Ernest Albert Baker (1913)
"... and remarkable only for one exceedingly disgusting scene, in which husband
and wife, after abusing each other in coarsely recriminative language, ..."
3. The Negro Question by George Washington Cable (1898)
"... Our plain duty should be not to make its solution more difficult;" but when
he occupies eleven pages of the Forum with a recriminative entanglement of ..."
4. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1858)
"... harsh words, mutually recriminative, rising ever higher; ending, it is thought,
in things, or menaces and motions towards things (actual box on the ear, ..."
5. History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"... harsh words, mutually recriminative, rising ever higher; ending, it is thought,
in things, or menaces and motions towards things (actual box on the ear, ..."
6. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1858)
"... harsh words, mutually recriminative, rising ever higher ; ending, it is thought,
in things, or menaces and motions towards things (actual box on-the ear ..."
7. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1872)
"The bitterest sarcasms upon the Government used to come from a man well on the
wrong side of sixty, and the most violent and recriminative rejoinders from ..."
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