adjective
definition
Expressing or containing reproach
synonyms
definition
Occasioning or deserving reproach; shameful; base
example
He lived a reproachful life.
Examples of reproachful in a Sentence
She shook her head and fixed him with a reproachful gaze.
All but Ben were casting rather reproachful glances upon him.
Start moaning while casting reproachful looks at the offender.
At the time, the term "idiot" was objective, but Down himself suggested that it be replaced with "feeble-minded" because the term was becoming a reproachful designation.
The command which his idiosyncrasies had upon him is shown, for example, by reproachful speeches on the treatment of Ireland, and by a startling harangue on behalf of the Chartists, at a time when such irregularities could but damage him, a new man, where he hoped for influence and office.
No patient would ever look at him with reproachful eyes; the guilt lay elsewhere.