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  1. reprovingly love

Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In a reproving manner; with reproof or censure.

Wiktionary

  1. adv. In a reproving manner.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adv. In a reproving manner.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adv. in a reproving or reproachful manner

Etymologies

  1. reproving +‎ -ly (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “I heard her call the dog's name reprovingly, then cry out in pain as the dog leapt from her arms. ”

    This Scepter'd Isle

  • “His lips pursed the monosyllable, "clothes," but Dick shook his head reprovingly.”

    SIWASH

  • “She looked at me for a moment, her gray eyes serious and scrutinizing, as she passed me my cup; then laughter welled up in her eyes, and she shook her head reprovingly.”

    CHAPTER IV

  • “Why, Dolly, this is most remarkable," Lute began reprovingly.”

    Jack London's Short Story - Planchette

  • ““Cut in haste, repent at leisure,” Yetta said, waving scissors at her reprovingly.”

    Simon & Schuster: Uprising

  • “Don't let's get carried away, he says, reprovingly.”

    The Guardian: Alan Sugar ? the lord of all he surveys

  • “She sighed reprovingly, dismayed by this flamboyant lack of courtesy.”

    The Washington Post: Fear, frustration reign at the polls

  • “And once at a Kips Big Boy restaurant (I have probably told this before) she was eating a hot fudge sundae, and when a decidedly straight-laced just-out-of-Church family looked over at us reprovingly because of our high spirits, she painted her eyelids with fudge and gazed at them in a regal way.”

    From the Comments | clusterflock

  • “I think the most obvious Cavendish theatrical finish line salute at least for this blog would be "The Bike Snob" wherein "The Man Missile" tut-tuts reprovingly at the second place finisher's $6000 wheels and mimes the very act of blogging about the experience...replete with laptop.”

    Signs of Victory: What it Takes to Win

  • “Some of us dinna spend our day idlin 'about the grassy banks, lad," he said reprovingly, rolling his eyes lewdly at me.”

    Fictionaut: Sick Cycle Carousel

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  • ArnoldJ Is the verb to reprovingly reproved, or is it something else? Jan 23, 2011

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