Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Expressing reproach or blame.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing or expressing reproach or censure; upbraiding.
- Scurrilous; opprobrious.
- Worthy or deserving of, or receiving, reproach; shameful: as, reproachful conduct.
- Synonyms Rebuking, censuring, upbraiding, censorious, contemptuous, contumelious, abusive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive.
- adjective Occasioning or deserving reproach; shameful; base.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Expressing or containing
reproach ;upbraiding ;opprobrious ;abusive . - adjective Occasioning or deserving reproach;
shameful ;base ; as, a reproachful life.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective
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Examples
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"So," said my grandmother to my grandfather, in reproachful tones, "you 've gone and shut the calf up from its mother."
Oldtown Folks 1869
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I guess it was the kind of look you would call reproachful.
When Lightning Strikes Jenny Carroll 2001
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I guess it was the kind of look you would call reproachful.
When Lightning Strikes Jenny Carroll 2001
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I guess it was the kind of look you would call reproachful.
When Lightning Strikes Jenny Carroll 2001
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For what thou callest bitter and reproachful, that is my portion, if I cause thee to be slain who hast shared my toils.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides
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"I wouldn't do this for anybody but you, Cap'n," he vouchsafed, in what might be called a reproachful shout.
Cap'n Warren's Wards Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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There she took a seat, and with a glance that might almost be termed reproachful, she commenced a low Indian song to her infant.
The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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I do love how he looks kind of reproachful and humiliated in that first picture .
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Suddenly I understood that all the others were looking at me in a kind of reproachful astonishment.
Friendship Village Zona Gale 1906
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And Twitt drew himself up with a kind of reproachful dignity -- "Now, old David, don't go for to say as _you_ don't think so too?"
The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Marie Corelli 1889
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