reproach

• His fine round face had become almost ludicrously long; his eyes and mouth were struggling to convey reproach, and the reproach was almost drowned in vexation. —  Can You Forgive Her?
• I charge it upon him, that not only did he suppress the inquiry to the best of his power, (and it shall be proved,) but he did not in any one instance endeavor to clear off that imputation and reproach from the English government. —  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)
• Of course, we are glad that our reproach is at last taken away; for it is very desirable, if possible, to have the good opinions of our fellow-men; but if, to secure these, we must sell our manhood and sully our souls, then their bad opinions of us are to be coveted instead Sir, my special part in this grand struggle was in first unfurling the banner of immediate and unconditional emancipation, and attempting to make a common rally under it This I did, not in a free State, but in the city of Baltimore in the slave-holding State of Maryland. —  The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, ;c.;, Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.
• And the reproach is the more bitter because--and this Balaustion, with her subtle morality, suggests--an undernote of conscience causes him to see his own baser self, now prominent in his acceptance of Alkestis' sacrifice, finished and hardened in the temper of his father--young Admetos in old Pheres. —  The Poetry Of Robert Browning
• They look alike, yet while the English "false" carries with it a moral reproach, the German word, where the context does not explicitly prove otherwise, means simply "incorrect," "erroneous," without the moral reproach added. —  William of Germany

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