recrimination

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an angry accusation made in response to another accusation, especially as part of an exchange of blame

   The meeting ended in bitter recriminations over who had ignored the warning.

Borrowed through French recrimination from Medieval Latin recriminatio, from recriminari ("to make a countercharge"). It combines re- in the sense "back in return" with Latin criminari ("to accuse"), from crimen ("charge, accusation").

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