noun
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A mild rebuke, or an implied criticism.
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Disgrace or shame.
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An object of scorn.
verb
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To criticize or rebuke (someone).
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To disgrace, or bring shame upon.
Examples of reproach in a Sentence
In all his private relations he was not only without reproach, but distinguished for the beauty of his character.
When you don't live the life, you bring reproach on the truth.
On the contrary I continually reproach myself....
You reproach us women with being illogical.
You should reproach the Zimbabwean government for not undertaking this land reform many years earlier.
Nature fears shame and contempt, but grace is happy to suffer reproach.
O'Neill had to look away since he couldn't bear the implied reproach.
She slipped into her shoes, still smarting from his reproach.
I am content to bear the reproach.
No; or he would not reproach people with doing no work.
Against his private character not even calumny has breathed a reproach.
The flight of the tsarevich to a foreign potentate was a reproach and a scandal.
He paid the costs of his royal parchment, and left without a word of reproach.
It was not till later times that the term became one of reproach.
Nicholas and his wife lived together so happily that even Sonya and the old countess, who felt jealous and would have liked them to disagree, could find nothing to reproach them with; but even they had their moments of antagonism.
It is sometimes levied as a reproach against Haggai that he makes no direct reference to moral duties.
Antipathies, indeed, survived, and men even in the 10th century called each other Roman or Langobard as terms of reproach.
The sole purpose of the Company is to deliver a level of service which is beyond reproach.
Well, I don't think you need reproach yourself on his account.
It is said, ' He esteemed the reproach of Christ to be greater riches, than the treasures of Egypt, ' Heb.
Well that an ungodly world could not reproach them, asking, Where is now thy God?
Blanford, in the Fauna of British India, is of opinion that the reproach is without foundation.
The emenders postulate mechanical errors in the writing of the figures, but, equally with those who accept them, regard the calculations of the native scribes as above reproach.
But it does contain an element of truth and indicates a well-founded reproach against the majority of those who practise conjecture.
His attempts to reform certain abuses of the Church, especially that of clerical nonresidence, awakened much ill-will, and of this the Jacobites took advantage, pursuing him to the end of his life with insult and reproach.
Nicholas, though a man of learning and strength of character, brought just reproach on himself for his efforts to found principalities for his nephews and other relations.
Benedicti (Paris, 1668-1701) of d'Achery and Mabillon, does not entirely escape this reproach.
His death, as well as that of his associate, Rosa Luxemburg, who perished on the same night at the hands of the soldiers or the mob, was constantly made a subject of reproach to the Government Socialists by the extreme Communist party.
Hirata answered by anticipation the modern reproach against Shinto, founded on the absence of any definite morality connected with it, by laying down the simple rule, " Act so that you need not be ashamed before the Kami of the unseen."
Of late years, however, Bossuet has found powerful defenders; and if they have not cleared his character from reproach, they have certainly managed to prove that Fenelon's methods of controversy were not much better than his.
He bore with calmness the storm of reproach from his party associates which followed, and lived to regain the esteem of those who had attacked him.
When Charles returned to Germany, after assuming the crowns in Rome and Milan, Petrarch addressed a letter of vehement invective and reproach to the emperor who was so negligent of the duties imposed on him by his high office.
The simplicity of his life and his adherence to Stoic principles were looked upon as a reproach to the frivolity and debaucheries of Nero, who "at last yearned to put Virtue itself to death in the persons of Thrasea and Soranus" (Tacitus).
By his vast expenditure, ascribable not only to his wars in Italy, his incessant embassies, and the necessity of defending himself in the Comtat Venaissin against the incursions of the adventurous Raymond of Turenne, but also to his luxurious tastes and princely habits, as well as by his persistent refusal to refer the question of the schism to a council, he incurred general reproach.
Philip as a reformer was in many ways before his time, but his people failed to understand him, and he died under the reproach of extortion.
McClellan was a clear and able writer and effective speaker, and his Own Story, edited by a friend and published soon after his death, discloses an honourable character, sensitive to reproach, and conscientious, even morbidly so, in his patriotism.
The later years of his life were darkened by a scandal which Beecher's personal, political and theological enemies used for a time effectively to shadow a reputation previously above reproach, he being charged by Theodore Tilton, whom he had befriended, with having had improper relations with his (Tilton's) wife.
The family seems to have been of Idumaean origin, so that its members were liable to the reproach of being half-Jews or even foreigners.
Richardson the novelist, in Sir Charles Grandison, wishes there could be a Protestant nunnery in every county, " with a truly worthy divine, at the appointment of the bishop of the diocese, to direct and animate the devotion of such a society "; in 1829 the poet Southey, in his Colloquies (cxiii.), trusts that " thirty years hence this reproach also may be effaced, and England may have its Beguines and its sisters of mercy.
After various remodellings, and amid much perturbation, secession, violent reproach, the Household Suffrage Bill passed in August 1867.
The Girondins wished to spare Louis, but were afraid of incurring the reproach of royalism.
The practical distinction in modern society is necessarily one of degree, and both "individualism" and "socialism" are very vaguely used, and generally as terms of reproach by opponents.
The Donatists themselves repudiated the designation, which was applied to them by their opponents as a reproach.
His cool reproach smarted, but the previous terse answers about his mother should have warned her that it was a touchy subject.
No, if anything, there's more reproach in the eyes of the world.
None can, without being guilty of manifest injustice, cast any reproach upon it, or upon our design in publishing it.
They are uniquely in a position to display to the world their testimony of being above reproach.
The very moral standards of the Church were seen as a severe reproach of the pagan way of life.
No great reproach is intended to the media by this statement.
He did not even reproach the rich man for his meanness.