Other forms: recriminations
Recrimination is angry blame thrown back and forth. Bitter recriminations, a round of recrimination, without recrimination.
It is nearly always plural and always mutual, which is the whole point of the re- at the front: a recrimination is a counter-accusation. It is what follows any defeat that could have gone otherwise.
1nounrecriminationAngry blame thrown back and forth.
“After the project failed, the meeting descended into bitter recrimination.”
recrimination is a blaming.
French recrimination comes from Latin re-, back, plus criminari, to accuse.
Proto-Indo-European
*krey-
French
récrimination
English, today
recrimination
From French récrimination.
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