Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Expressing reproach or blame.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
Wiktionary
- adj. Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive.
- adj. Occasioning or deserving reproach; shameful; base; as, a reproachful life.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive.
- adj. Occasioning or deserving reproach; shameful; base.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective
Examples
“So," said my grandmother to my grandfather, in reproachful tones, "you 've gone and shut the calf up from its mother.”
“I guess it was the kind of look you would call reproachful.”
“For what thou callest bitter and reproachful, that is my portion, if I cause thee to be slain who hast shared my toils.”
“I wouldn't do this for anybody but you, Cap'n," he vouchsafed, in what might be called a reproachful shout.”
“There she took a seat, and with a glance that might almost be termed reproachful, she commenced a low Indian song to her infant.”
“I do love how he looks kind of reproachful and humiliated in that first picture .”
“Suddenly I understood that all the others were looking at me in a kind of reproachful astonishment.”
“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?”
“Who-are-you-shagging?" type question is a kind of reproachful look.”
“Remember that, when the time of trial comes -- and it seems a hard and cruel thing that you should be called reproachful names by men, and all for what was no fault of yours -- remember God's pity and God's justice; and though my sin shall have made you an outcast in the world -- oh, my child, my child! ”
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