reproach

[US]/rɪˈprəʊtʃ/
[UK]/rɪˈproʊtʃ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. blame; disgrace
vt. blame; scold

Phrases & Collocations

beyond reproach

above reproach

Example Sentences

This dirt is a reproach to the city.

Such doings will reproach him.

The slums are a reproach to London.

Do not reproach yourself, it was not your fault.

Your reproach cuts me to the heart.

his wife reproached him with cowardice.

his elegance is a living reproach to our slovenly habits.

She got a sharp reproach from her boss.

He gave Helen a look of bitter reproach.

critics of the administion reproached the president for his failure to tackle the deficiency.

We all suffer reproaches for the inadvertence of a few.

His mother reproached him for his bad manners.

Torn between anger and self-reproach, he could hardly fall asleep.

On p. 110… he reproaches Arminian theology because it does not see human nature itself as revelational.

5.On abuse, on reproach, on calumny, it is easy to smile; but painful indeed, is the panegyric of those we contemn.

I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it as we too may have been somewhat to blame.

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