recriminatory

recrimination | American Dictionary

recrimination
noun[ C/U ]
us/rɪˌkrɪm·əˈneɪ·ʃən/
argument between people who are blaming each other, or the particular way they blame each other:
[ U ]Western leaders, instead of presenting a coherent policy, have repeatedly lapsed into finger-pointing and recrimination.

Examples of recrimination

recrimination
The recriminations that followed the 1940 general strike developed the differences between trade unions and their leaders into bitter conflicts and antagonisms.
In these circumstances, mandatory public voting is likely only to intensify and harden social divisions, recriminations and misunderstandings.
Failure to clarify roles and responsibilities may result in a decision-making vacuum and, occasionally, recrimination on all sides.
Personal responsibility enters the picture only fleetingly, in the form of recriminations against oppressive political and social agents.
It was in this climate that superficial recriminations toward workers, foreigners and social climbers flourished.
The takeover of fields under the provisions of the new law led to bitter recriminations, divorces (as retaliations against family groups) and other conflicts.
All this recrimination and second-guessing is quite understandable given the dramatic rise and fall of health care reform in the early 1990s.
Company servants had to wrestle with these complexities in an atmosphere of bitter recrimination.
Historically, mutual antagonism and recriminations of either socialist reformism or reckless libertarian violence made the possibility of workers' unity ephemeral.
Some professionals may chose nondisclosure because they fear being sued, or fear that other professionals will think they are incompetent practitioners, or fear that they will suffer recriminations.
When everything unexpectedly and spectacularly fell apart, there were some feeble excuses and recriminations from the two principal actors in the drama that were part comedy and part tragedy.
This danger is endemic in social life, the use of pre-commitment tactics to get a favourable pattern leading to the failure to co-ordinate on one pattern and to mutual recriminations.
Finally, when the anger and recriminations have died down, we must get to grips with a reform of the common agricultural policy.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
From the benches opposite criticism has taken the form of a great deal of recrimination about the past.
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