All 12 Uses of
reproach
in
Hard Times
- His eminently practical friend, on seeing him, stopped also, and gave Louisa a reproachful look that plainly said, 'Behold your Bounderby!'†
Chpt 1.4
- Any capitalist there, who had made sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, always professed to wonder why the sixty thousand nearest Hands didn't each make sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, and more or less reproached them every one for not accomplishing the little feat.†
Chpt 2.1
- 'You may be certain;' in the energy of her love she took him to her bosom as if he were a child; 'that I will not reproach you.†
Chpt 2.8
- 'Pray, sir,' returned Mrs. Sparsit, reproachfully, 'let me beg you not to say that.†
Chpt 2.11
- I don't reproach you, father.†
Chpt 2.12
- I do not reproach you, father, I make no complaint.
Chpt 2.12 *reproach = criticize
- What avails it to me that you do not reproach me, if I so bitterly reproach myself!'†
Chpt 3.1
- What avails it to me that you do not reproach me, if I so bitterly reproach myself!'†
Chpt 3.1
- He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been — in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away — by the fervour of this reproach.†
Chpt 3.2
- …and your children's children yet unborn have set their infant hands and seals, I propose to you on the part of the United Aggregate Tribunal, ever watchful for your welfare, ever zealous for your benefit, that this meeting does Resolve: That Stephen Blackpool, weaver, referred to in this placard, having been already solemnly disowned by the community of Coketown Hands, the same are free from the shame of his misdeeds, and cannot as a class be reproached with his dishonest actions!'†
Chpt 3.4
- Louisa could not reproach her for her unjust suspicions; she was so faithful to her idea of the man, and so afflicted.†
Chpt 3.4
- 'He shall not, through any act of mine, come back wi' the unmerited reproach of being brought back.†
Chpt 3.4
Definition:
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(reproach) a criticism; or to express criticism or disappointment -- especially where a relationship makes the disapproval result in disappointment or shameeditor's notes: The expression "beyond reproach" is often used to indicate that one must not only be careful to do everything right, but must be careful not to do anything that might make people suspect they did something wrong. For example, politicians often need to behave in a manner that is beyond reproach.
"Beyond reproach" can also suggest that something is perfect. More rarely, it can also be used to suggest that someone is too powerful or too well-connected to criticize.