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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of reproach.

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Examples

  • Call reproached himself bitterly for carelessness, for assuming the horses were strays.

    The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

  • Call reproached himself bitterly for carelessness, for assuming the horses were strays.

    Streets of Laredo Larry McMurtry 1993

  • It was a comfort to me, truly, that not one of these ever by look or word reproached me for thus so wofully misleading them; and yet, in a certain way, their very forbearance but added to my pain.

    The Aztec Treasure-House Thomas Allibone Janvier

  • Just before the troops left the cars, a young man, (whose name I regret to be unable to give here,) entered one of them, and in bitter terms reproached the troops for aiding in the war against the South.

    The Aid-De-Camp; A Romance of the War 1861

  • These children are well-behaved, they can entertain themselves (and don't have to be held or reproached everywhere you go) and I'm sure you and Remco will do just as great as Anastaszia and Shurf, or Nachtvisser and Sas, or Ragar and Annejet or any other larper.

    Tenerife, lost count of the days nathreee 2010

  • "And if they carry it out, not only can they not be reproached for that, but they should be praised for confronting this situation."

    Defending the Church's Teachings with Actions 2009

  • The French Foreign Minister Alain Juppé in turn reproached the PS for threatening to raise the "old demons of Germanophobia."

    Seth Engel: Eurozone Woes - Is The Union Falling Apart? Seth Engel 2011

  • Afterwards, when Hendrik Hamel was eager to know all that I had said, and when I told him, he reproached me and was in a pretty rage.

    Chapter 15 2010

  • This, of course, is something that this government may be reproached for, and is indeed a source of embarrassment for the country.

    Raghida Dergham: The UN Security Council's Pro-Syrian 'Defiance Coalition' Crumbles Raghida Dergham 2011

  • When once reproached by her employer for not taking proper care in this mindless work, Powell claims to have responded by quoting G.K. Chesterton on "the malignity of inanimate objects."

    What the Help Really Saw Elizabeth Lowry 2012

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