reproval

NOUN
  1. an act or expression of criticism and censure
    he had to take the rebuke with a smile on his face
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How To Use reproval In A Sentence

  • But Maud said, “Tut, tut,” in gentle reproval, and then asked why I was a blithering idiot. Chapter 29
  • "Lie flat," said Viv as she eased herself next to him, not a trace of reproval or hurt in her voice.
  • If the committee determines a lawmaker has committed wrongdoing, it may send the lawmaker a letter of reproval, akin to a rebuke.
  • Noah, however, "lifts his hand in a gesture of reproval" to Shem and says, "We shall wait."
  • Molly does not take kindly to her aunt's reproval. Molly Picon in "East and West"
  • This met with bitter reproval from Queen Eleanor, who perhaps already hoped that Gascony might pass to her son, the future Edward I.
  • He deserves a more vigorous reproval, if only for signing, along with fifteen others, the infamous letter.
  • There is no question that fear of reproval will drive you to not admit when you use these therapies.
  • M. Rossignol felt a kind of reproval in the Cure's tone. The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
  • A few idlers passing by paused to jeer at the victim and throw balls of mud, and now and then a more sober citizen was to be seen, seizing a moment from the round of daily duties to attend to the moral improvement of the delinquent by means of a few well-chosen words of reproval and advice. Sick Cycle Carousel
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