Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a reproving manner; with reproof or censure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a reproving manner.
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- adverb In a
reproving manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a reproving or reproachful manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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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 Lackey, Mercedes 2004
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“Cut in haste, repent at leisure,” Yetta said, waving scissors at her reprovingly.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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“Cut in haste, repent at leisure,” Yetta said, waving scissors at her reprovingly.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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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.
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She sighed reprovingly, dismayed by this flamboyant lack of courtesy.
Fear, frustration reign at the polls Sandhya Somashekhar 2010
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"Why, Dolly, this is most remarkable," Lute began reprovingly.
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His lips pursed the monosyllable, "clothes," but Dick shook his head reprovingly.
SIWASH 2010
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Don't let's get carried away, he says, reprovingly.
Alan Sugar ? the lord of all he surveys Sabine Durrant 2010
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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 2010
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She sighed reprovingly, dismayed by this flamboyant lack of courtesy.
Qualified call for change reflects fatigue, frustration Sandhya Somashekhar 2010
ArnoldJ commented on the word reprovingly
Is the verb to reprovingly reproved, or is it something else?
January 23, 2011