How To Use Reproach In A Sentence

I felt, in reading your unreproaching letter to her, as self-reproachful as anybody could with a great deal of innocence (in the way of the world) to fall back upon. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)
So return to him, O thou monk, and say that the single combat shall take place to morrow, for this day we have come off our journey and are aweary; but after rest neither reproach nor blame fear ye. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
My hair was matted and wild -- my limbs soiled with salt ooze; while at sea, I had thrown off those of my garments that encumbered me, and the rain drenched the thin summer-clothing I had retained -- my feet were bare, and the stunted reeds and broken shells made them bleed -- the while, I hurried to and fro, now looking earnestly on some distant rock which, islanded in the sands, bore for a moment a deceptive appearance -- now with flashing eyes reproaching the murderous ocean for its unutterable cruelty. III.9
We agree that many care homes are beyond reproach - that is not the point. Times, Sunday Times
He argued that the reproaches were unfair.

So they need to be completely above reproach. The Sun
He was of a mild and cheerful temper, generous to the extent of his means, and of an inventive genius; and his conduct after marriage was irreproachable.
Although rock had become mainstream by the early 1970s, it continued to arouse resistance and to elicit reproach - and continues, indeed, to this day.
She gave her daughter a reproachful glance.
She is quick to reproach anyone who doesn't live up to her own high standards.
He is imprisoned for a year for having acted as Castlewood's second in the duel, for which Lady Castlewood bitterly reproaches him, and on his release joins the army and fights in the war of the Spanish Succession.
But set-piece work beyond reproach. Times, Sunday Times
Had such been the case a century might have elapsed before the reproach of convictism had been removed from this hemisphere. A Source Book of Australian History
They must be loyal and irreproachable in their conduct.
I guess it was the kind of look you would call reproachful. When Lightning Strikes
No caustic reproach, no specious arguments against the plan, no long-suffering resignation. C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they could not bring us to enjoy life, they would at least teach us to endure it. The Vicar of Wakefield
Her deportment was the subject of reams of scurrility in prose and verse: it lowered her in the opinion of some whose esteem she valued; nor did the world know, till she was beyond the reach of praise and censure, that the conduct which had brought on her the reproach of levity and insensibility was really a signal instance of that perfect disinterestedness and selfdevotion of which man seems to be incapable, but which is sometimes found in woman. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2
Not a word of reproach was said when Ali returned to the ring against Quarry and Bonavena, though the Messenger had inveighed against the evils of sports. Sound and Fury
Horace Greeley, editor of the "New York Tribune," the leading Republican journal of the North, contented himself with referring to Brown and his followers as "mistaken men," but added that he would "not by one reproachful word disturb the bloody shrouds wherein John Brown and his compatriots are sleeping. The end of an era,
'And shall I entitle the wretch to upbraid me with his generosity, and his pity; and perhaps to reproach me for having been capable of forgiving crimes of such a nature? Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7
His absence had regained for him much of that aureola of saintship which had been nearly abstracted during her reproachful mood on that miserable journey from London. A Pair of Blue Eyes
Picasso's critics reproached him for an inability‘to forge a personal style’.
The technique was beyond reproach so all eyes turned to me. Times, Sunday Times
And for the assertion laid down, I desire that those who despise and reproach it would attempt an answer unto the ensuing arguments whereby it is confirmed, with those others which shall be insisted on in our description of the nature of the work of regeneration itself, and that upon such grounds and principles as are not destructive of Christian religion nor introductive of atheism, before they are too confident of their success. Pneumatologia
All those reproaches aimed at us should have been directed against them, because their cinema was completely unreal.
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?
His comments always held a reproachful tone, even when he tried to be dear.
She is being reproached for conceit and arrogance, promoting expensive goods and products, which people can't afford to buy, targeting a wealthy audience.
Her reaction is a source of self-reproach to this day.
There was one particular piece which whoever got was called cailleach beal-tine-i. e., the Beltane carline, a term of great reproach. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
But don't you dare to reproach me with one drop of blood or one writer in jail.
She looked at him with reproachful eyes and he looked at her with disgust and anger.
There are some who consider that the greatest scene in history -- the hero sheathing his sword "after a life of spotless honor, a purity unreproached, a courage indomitable, and a consummate victory. American Men of Action
Hermite had a kind of positive hatred of geometry and once curiously reproached me with having made a geometrical memoir.
He could also claim a legitimacy built on a succession of victories in irreproachably clean popular votes in referendums and multi-party elections.
While Lakshmi is the goddess of riches, her elder sister is the deity of poverty, indigence, odium, reproach and ignominy.
The reproach was lightly mocking and they both laughed.
She is quick to reproach anyone who doesn't live up to her own high standards.
A blow, a short rush, a clinch and scuffle, and the voice of the massier, stern and reproachful: The King in Yellow
He was relieved to find Tanis cheerful, unreproachful, and brilliant in a frock of brown net over gold tissue. Babbit
Her conduct had always been beyond reproach.
Accordingly he repaired to the Hotel de Ville, and gave to the Municipal Council so distinct an account of his measures, and of his reason for taking them, that, though Danton and some of his more factious colleagues reproached him for exhibiting what they called a needless distrust of the people, the majority of the Council approved of his conduct, and dismissed him to return to his duties. The Life of Marie Antoinette
Which of us, in fact, has the force of character to be superior to petty vanity, to _petty fine feelings_, sympathy and self-reproach? ... The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories
The following instance is known to _The Christian_ as true, and to a remarkable degree indicates how thoroughly God knows our minutest needs, and how effectively He makes those who ever reproach his name ashamed of their unbelief. The Wonders of Prayer A Record of Well Authenticated and Wonderful Answers to Prayer
No caustic reproach, no specious arguments against the plan, no long-suffering resignation. C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
He walked or sat with his eyes continually fixed upon these feet -- reproachfully, it seemed -- as if their disproportion were a source of perennial woe; he carried his arms looped behind him, and had acquired a peculiar stoop -- to facilitate his vigilant guardianship of his feet, apparently. The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy
I had advanced so far as to sit down at my window again on my second morning, and to write the first half-line of the chapter and strike it out, not liking it, when my conscience reproached me with not having surveyed the watering-place out of the season, after all, yesterday, but with having gone straight out of it at the rate of four miles and a half an hour. Reprinted Pieces
Remembering how white soldiers from eastern cities took the skin of a native chief for a trophy of victory, and recalling the fiendish glee of Mandanes over a victim, I can only conclude that neither race may blamelessly point the finger of reproach at the other. Lords of the North
Look at the Closet scene: Hamlet has just killed a man, Polonius, yet he heaps reproaches upon his mother's head for daring to re-marry.
They said that they would be different, transparent, clean beyond reproach. Times, Sunday Times
I am contented with my fortunes, spectator e longinquo, and love Neptunum procul a terra spectare furentem: he is ambitious, and not satisfied with his: but what [3944] gets he by it? to have all his life laid open, his reproaches seen: not one of a thousand but he hath done more worthy of dispraise and animadversion than commendation; no better means to help this than to be private. Anatomy of Melancholy
Her conduct throughout was irreproachable.
There is no defence against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph. Essays and Tales
Not the less soured by these multiplied causes of irritation, from the reflection that they were attributable to his own follies and vices, he gave full scope to his resentments, and indulged himself in expressions of angry reproach against what he termed the ingratitude of his country, which provoked those around him, and gave great offense to Congress. Life and Times of Washington
As the modern man of fashion, when an exterior compliance with the tonish habits of high life rendered simulation and conformity necessary, he generally acquitted himself in a style that seemed to say he was only in his proper element, and met with his equals alone in the first circles of elegant society; but the real character of this young and amiable man never appeared in its true colouring to such advantage, as, when freed from the trammels situation and circumstances frequently imposed upon it, he found himself at liberty to follow the genuine bent of inclination, which secretly pointed to rational enjoyments, pleasures unaccompanied by the sting of after reproach, and a participation in all the milder and more tranquil virtues to be met with in the less elevated stations of private life. Stella of the North, or the Foundling of the Ship
She was reproached and maledicted by her father, on her return, although he knew not where she had been. Margaret
He is above reproach.
Travel upon the continent with friends, occasional visits to the old family house in England, long sojourns in this or the other city -- such had been her life, quiet, sweet, reproachless and unreproaching. The Mississippi Bubble
Why, look ye," said the latter, as the coin jingled in his bag, "I was ever held in good repute as a guide, and can make my way blindfold over the bogs and mosses hereabout; and I would pilot thee to the place yonder, if my fealty to the prior -- that is -- if -- I mean -- though I was never a groat the richer for his bounty; yet he may not like strangers to pry into his garners and store-houses, especially in these evil times, when every cur begins to yelp at the heels of our bountiful mother; and every beast to bray out its reproaches at her great wealth and possessions. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)
The hint of reproach in ‘omission’ may not be quite fair to either of us.
She gave no answer to my reproaches, save to gaze at me with a sort of wild, despairing look in her eyes.
So brainwashing became a pejorative, and the phrase ‘you've been brainwashed,’ a term of reproach, as if the prisoner had become addlebrained, or a simpleton, during his captivity.
It may have looked harmless enough, but Jenny knew what it stood for - guilt and self-reproach.
She made the man blest who had taken away her children, and enriched her bereaver with a present: and took away nothing to make up the slaughter of her sons save the reproach of ignorance and the loss of goods. The Danish History, Books I-IX
But I knew all those words were somehow reproachful, and that Aunt Jane and Mum were probably talking about me.
His record, though, remains beyond reproach. Times, Sunday Times
'You didn't suppose I'd forget you liked muscatels?' inquired Franklin, with a mild and unreproachful gentleness when she exclaimed over the nectarines and grapes. Franklin Kane
The logic of these actions is above reproach, but the results have all too often been below expectations. LIVING ON THE FAULT LINE, REVISED EDITION
The assumption that the Windsor matriarch, alone of her tribe, offered a symbol impervious to scepticism, reproach, censure, even simple boredom, has been dispelled.
When he was gone, she scolded me, and reproached me with what she called my coquetry and imprudence; I could not bear her injustice, and very rashly replied, that no one had a right to blame me when my own conscience absolved me. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
We halted by some pasture bars in the shade of an old cider-apple tree, and I threw the bridle over a leaning post in the unsteady fence; and there the horse and I waited, and looked at each other reproachfully. The Landscape Chamber
The title of censor was esteemed more honorable than that of consul, although attended by less power: no one could be elected a second time, and they who filled it were remarkable for leading an irreproachable life; so that it was considered the chief ornament of nobility to be sprung from a censorian family. Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)
The second motive is a mixture of revenge and reproach.
I should let its few small offences go unsummoned and unreproached. Chapters from My Autobiography
The logic of these actions is above reproach, but the results have all too often been below expectations. LIVING ON THE FAULT LINE, REVISED EDITION
Oh! may we soon blot out the reproach which that neglect has justly rendered us liable to, since we abolished the novercal government of Britain! Observations on the slaves and the indented servants, inlisted in the army, and in the navy of the United States.
He reproached his wife with her inattention, her habitual neglect of the children.
She reproached him for forgetting their anniversary.
His speech was precise, his mind analytical and his code of conduct above reproach.
Does this clear up all the difficulty, and do you see that I never dreamed of 'reproaching you for dealing out one sort of cards to me and everybody else' ” but that ... why, 'that' which I have, I hope, said, so need not resay. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
The coquette Lady Betty Modish is led to accept the suit of the honourable Lord Morelove (contrasted with the boastful and immoral Lord Foppington) by a plot to excite her jealousy, followed by reproaches from Sir Charles.
The studio audiences are beyond reproach, courted and flattered. Times, Sunday Times
When Clive wouldn't go, she became plaintive and reproachful. SPLITTING
There she took a seat, and with a glance that might almost be termed reproachful, she commenced a low Indian song to her infant. The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish
When Holly reproaches Harry with the damage he has caused to his ‘victims,’ Harry makes the first of his famous speeches.
Whosoever shall willfully blaspheme the holy name of God, by cursing or contumeliously reproaching God, and whosoever shall profanely curse or damn or swear by the name of God, Jesus Christ, or the Holy Ghost, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Mil. to pass muster: to undergo muster or inspection without censure; (later in extended use) to come up to the required standard, to be beyond reproach or criticism; to be taken or accepted as (occas. for) something. Battlecat « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
She is quick to reproach anyone who doesn't live up to her own high standards.
So they need to be completely above reproach. The Sun
A bishop, Paul points out, must be "above reproach" (anepílimptos, 1Ti 3: 1) literally meaning having a solid grasp-on the Christian walk, we presume-and "guiltless," (Tt 1: 7) meaning nothing to hide. SmuloSpace: Thinking. Listening. Provoking. Discussing.
One day he even reproached Therese with what he termed her coldness for Laurent. Theresa Raquin
She was lying flat on her back, her angular hipbones further reproaching Moira's éclair. AN OLDER WOMAN
But if ‘unobservable’ is thus interpreted, it seems to be true that material objects are unobservable, and the recognition of this truth could hardly be regarded as a matter for reproach.
By apologizing and taking responsibility for our actions we help rid ourselves of esteem-robbing self-reproach and guilt.
Dema nodded his agreement and shot Alex a reproachful look as if she was breaking her promise.
People have got to be seen to be beyond reproach. Times, Sunday Times
We all suffer reproaches for the inadvertence of a few.
She is quick to reproach anyone who doesn't live up to her own high standards.
The captain's behaviour is above / beyond reproach .
Instead, I just dialled my mother's phone number, bracing myself against her reproaches.
His behaviour throughout this affair has been beyond reproach.
Mainly they seemed irreproachably mature, men who might easily have other jobs as engineers, or sales executives in a regional weed killer and sheep-dip firm. Rolling World Cup nostalgia is the only sporting show in town
She looked into his face, and guilt and self-reproach dissolved, along with the memory of another face, other eyes, ones that haunted and weighed her down with unresolvable pain.
The answer, again, comes in the theory of masochistic self-reproach sparked by the perpetual process of mourning an irreconcilable loss.
If you ignore one of the small safety details when riding these machines, you could end up reproaching yourself why did not you do it.
A strict two-seater, with the engine mounted behind the seats, the MR2 is a joy to drive as its handling and roadholding are beyond reproach.
If I failed in any measure in this respect, they reproached me with being "unsociable," and said; Cape Cod Folks
His mother reproached him for not eating all his dinner.
We read his bitter railings at the Pharisees, and miss the point entirely, because the word Pharisee has become to us a word of reproach. The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition
The tendering process was almost certainly above reproach. The Sun
Wherefore this very day will I open on him the door of mischief by writing him a writ wherein I will flyte him and reproach him with that which he hath done and see what he will reply. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The reproach was lightly mocking and they both laughed.
What had become of the suspicious anti-warrior of the sixties, casting reproachful glances at the Temple University computer center?
You aren't worth it, and the friendly overtures of others come as a justified reproach.
Marked self-reproach, early morning waking, and weight loss were not seen in this type of patient.
'You ought to have thought of them,'she said in a reproachful tone.
The resource person may correct a serious error and repeat the phrase again but with no trace of disapproval or reproach.
Stung by his reproach, she counters by reminding him that her lack of ardor is understandable given their night of lovemaking.
These men have all sustained unreproached reputations, and retained through their long lives the full confidence of the people of their respective States. The Memories of Fifty Years
cully" too cruel a reproach to the men, for their abused weakness for us. Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749)
But set-piece work beyond reproach. Times, Sunday Times
They cite the demands, reproaches and scaremongering of an obsessed media.
Indeed mamma began to reproach me for what she called my disloyal and treacherous sentiments. Daisy in the Field
With Rebecca he got on very well; she was impersonal, unreproachful, and she fairly panted for work. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays
He gave Helen a look of bitter reproach.
The biblical texts are full of suffering and self-reproach and the intensity of these responsores may well amaze you.
But to come back at me and reproach me for not winning the championship in that period is a bit overboard. The Sun
Are we justified in concluding, then, that in the "good old times" of our great-grandmothers -- that idyllic time when women must have been at least free from the reproach that they, solely and unaided, were destroying the hopes of the race -- that myopic, hypermetropic and astigmatic eyes were not in existence? The Education of American Girls
Medicine can no longer reproach me with being unfaithful: I've paid a proper tribute to erudition, and to what old writers call pedantry.
Only a resolute leader who sets an irreproachable personal example stands any chance of making headway.
Anonymous said ... whar a tactful - and graceful and well-deserved - reproach from Melinda! Get Your Factoids Straight
He should have been beyond reproach. The Sun
Which is the noble character for ages to admire -- yon fribble dancing in lace and spangles, or yonder hero who sheathes his sword after a life of spotless honor, a purity unreproached, a courage indomitable, and a consummate victory? George Washington: Farmer
So they need to be completely above reproach. The Sun
The inhabitants seem insensible to these impressions, and are apt to imagine the disgust that we avow is little better than affectation; but they ought to have some compassion for strangers, who have not been used to this kind of sufferance; and consider, whether it may not be worth while to take some pains to vindicate themselves from the reproach that, on this account, they bear among their neighbours. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Moreover, if blame in general is irrational, so must be self-blame or self-reproach, unless this comes simply to resolving to do better next time.
Her sense of ‘regret, self-reproach and resentment’ is further intensified when she reads a newspaper report of the magnificent wedding of her former suitor.
In the rare moments when the self-reproach would ease up, grief or dejection would engulf him.
Interestingly, those last reproaches are similar to the grievances aired by Wanda's husband while he's waiting for her in court.
No less absurd is the second reproach thrown upon capitalism - namely, that technological and therapeutical innovations do not benefit all people.
10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Seated on a chair against the window, with her arm on the windowsill she was looking blankly at the flowing river, swift with the backward-rushing tide, struggling to see still the sweet face in its unreproaching sadness, that seemed now from moment to moment to sink away and be hidden behind a form that thrust itself between, and made darkness. IV. Maggie and Lucy. Book VII—The Final Rescue
He was relieved to find Tanis cheerful, unreproachful, and brilliant in Babbitt
Page 186 it is upon the system which thus brutifies a human being that the reproach falls in all its bitterness. Wilson Armistead, 1819?-1868. A Tribute for the Negro: Being a Vindication of the Moral, Intellectual, and Religious Capabilities of the Colored Portion of Mankind; with Particular Reference to the African Race.
These are universally ignored by referees and are adjudged to be above reproach. Times, Sunday Times
His immaculate garden was a reproach to all his less organized neighbours.
Entertainment can often just be a kind of narcissism where you go to identify with people who are morally irreproachable and physically beautiful.
This wasn't just a case of a few New York highbrows flaunting their refinement in reproach of Hollywood vulgarity.
‘You're getting me into trouble, puss,’ Louis would say reproachfully.
Torn between anger and self - reproach, he could hardly fall asleep.
I had to resort to clouting her with my underwater flashgun; she looked at me reproachfully with her enormous eyes and went off in search of more receptive playmates!
Camillo limited his reaction to a look combining reproach with scepticism. MURKY SHALLOWS
Aunt Alice frowned slightly at this reproach against her motherly duties, but the sorrow in her beautiful eyes could not be from this reproach alone, it was too deep.
Bureaucrats are always selfless and the motives of politicians and policymakers normally irreproachable.
I could scarcely reproach you for having undergone it without success, for those who emerge from it triumphant are very few.
He tells him that he is not there to reproach him, and John denies having done anything wrong.
Sherman declared that Cleveland's choice of southern advisors was a "reproach to the civilization of the age," and Joseph B. Foraker, speaking in an Ohio campaign, found that the people wished to hear Cleveland "flayed" and wanted plenty of "hot stuff. The United States Since the Civil War
He reproaches the narrator, Miles Coverdale, for grumbling about the weather.
They were exposed to persecutions, though apparently not systematic, but rather annoyances and reproach arising from their not joining their heathen neighbors in riotous living, into which, however, some of them were in danger of falling. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
What had become of the suspicious anti-warrior of the sixties, casting reproachful glances at the Temple University computer center?
There I abode a long time, and was fo bewitched by that enemy of pil - grims, that I would not be feen where pilgrims reforted, un - lefs by night; and then avoided all converfe with them: but altjio* my ccnfcience daily reproached my conduift; yet I ilridly attonded fefrpk fervice in Arminiafi-freety againit my better knowledge. Christian memoirs, or, a review of the present state of religion in England : in the form of a new pilgrimage to the heavenly Jerusalem ..
He had a steely streak but his morals and scruples were beyond reproach.
of irreproachable character
The tendering process was almost certainly above reproach. The Sun
As it is they are continually reproaching me with what they call my mistaken clemency, and there would be no restraining them did they know of this. Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden
I wouldn't do this for anybody but you, Cap'n," he vouchsafed, in what might be called a reproachful shout. Cap'n Warren's Wards
Spouting apologies, Hat concentrated on the guests, to blot out Dalziel's threatening glower and Pascoe's reproachful pout. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
All the voices of self-reproach start talking at once and I'll never do anything right.
We agree that many care homes are beyond reproach - that is not the point. Times, Sunday Times
My mother's face floated to mind, a pale reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday.
19, “And meddle not with such as flatter with their mouth,” as indeed commonly they who reproach the absent, flatter the present; a backbiter is a face-flatterer. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
Besides the jar of contrast there came to her a chill self-reproach that she had not returned sooner, to help her mother in these domesticities, instead of indulging herself out-of-doors.
She gave Isabelle a reproachful look.
His eyes hardened into bright emeralds and… I could be imagining it, but they had a somewhat reproachful gleam.
She wants her actions, inactions, and mistakes to be above any legal reproach.
But perhaps, because he was essentially simple, he would have fitted in well enough if he had been less ready to voice his grievances and ruffle the calm which she so carefully preserved, which he called coldness and for which he reproached her often. The Misses Mallett The Bridge Dividing
You have to be smarter, more tenacious, less reproachable.
His voice sounded thin and sanctimonious to Alma, but his cheeks looked jowly, heavily reproachful. LOST CHILDREN
Women's presence in civil and political society is a veritable moral reproach.
Tony looked up at her; his voice calm, unreproachful. The Complete Stories Vol 1
What she calls jokes often seem to me thinly disguised reproaches of his behaviour or character flaws, the only difference is that she laughs afterwards.
A little later, in another department of the Wilmax Cannery, lumping as a fruit-distributor among the women, he essayed to carry two boxes of fruit at a time, and was promptly reproached by the other fruit-lumpers. SOUTH OF THE SLOT
When he did it, Isaac meant to take him back instantly, unquestioned, unreproved and unreproached. The Divine Fire
My consultants currently read Harry as a modern-day knight, peerless and beyond reproach.
Despite lengthy investigations, neither charge was made to stick, although he was reproached by the chairmen of both inquiries.
No," for a monosyllable is the most one can hope to secure of the conversation in an interview; but the pretty lady interviewer went on reproachfully: "Have you seen that stately hill of the dead, the Without Prejudice
Individually, too, the Australian players will probably receive higher marks than their team, and the anomaly of the team's statistical dominance should act as a challenge to them, while also acting as a standing reproach to every statto. The Coffee House | Politics and News Discussion Forum
But set-piece work beyond reproach. Times, Sunday Times
Clothed in black, half reclining on a couch, his elbows resting upon pillows, the Prince was languidly touching the chords of his guitar; he ceased this when he saw the grand ecuyer enter, and, raising his large eyes to him with an air of reproach, swayed his head to and fro for a long time without speaking. The French Immortals Series — Complete
From Abraham's bold-faced reproach in Genesis 18, "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do justly?"
In _who are looking reproach_, what is the object complement of _are looking_? Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room
We agree that many care homes are beyond reproach - that is not the point. Times, Sunday Times
People have a right to expect the conduct of our police to be beyond reproach. The Sun
He publicly reproached his son for his behavior.
Eli looked at Tim reproachfully as the two joined the stream of teens heading for the doors.
Paradoxical, the spectacle of this disciple of Kojève, fed on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and on the prosopopeia of the Idea, reproaching others for their excessive idealism. In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part IV)
There are deep wells of poverty in both which are a living reproach to their political representatives.
His record, though, remains beyond reproach. Times, Sunday Times
But when they or their rivals, silverweed, burdock, false ragweed, thistles, gumweed, and others usurp the landscape and seem to choke up the very earth and the very air with ceaseless monotony and repetition, then they become an offence to the eye and a reproach to those who tolerate them. Over Prairie Trails

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