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reproachfulness

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being reproachful.

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  • noun The state or quality of being reproachful.

Etymologies

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reproachful +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • She withdrew into the coach again, and he saw the hand waving towards him for a moment; but whether in reproachfulness or incredulity or misery, or grief, or sad adieu, or what else, he could not, being so hurried, understand.

    The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

  • Christians -- British, as it happens -- went and ruined my shtick, my reproachfulness.

    2006 National Prayer Breakfast Keynote Address 2006

  • Then, in 1997, a couple of eccentric, septuagenarian British Christians went and ruined my shtick - my reproachfulness.

    Archive 2006-02-01 David Sheern 2006

  • Then, in 1997, a couple of eccentric, septuagenarian British Christians went and ruined my shtick - my reproachfulness.

    Bono Speech David Sheern 2006

  • “I had not forgotten that,” cried Katerina Ivanovna, coming to a sudden standstill, “and why are you so antagonistic at such a moment?” she added, with warm and bitter reproachfulness.

    The Brothers Karamazov 2003

  • He read perplexity and a kind of secret reproachfulness in her face.

    A House of Gentlefolk 2003

  • Ivanovna, with a certain reproachfulness in his tone.

    Anna Karenina 2003

  • Petrushka made no reply, but he gave Mr. Golyadkin such a look that the latter crimsoned to his ears — looked at hm with an insulting reproachfulness almost equivalent to open abuse.

    The Double 2003

  • She stared at him, whether out of curiosity or deliberate reproachfulness he had no way of determining.

    Quozl Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1989

  • The possibilities of coming disaster hung over her head, and her aunt's attitude of aggrieved reproachfulness was torture to the girl's loving heart.

    'Lizbeth of the Dale Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

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