All 4 Uses of
reprove
in
Atlas Shrugged
- Don't I"-until she heard the cold, reproving voice of the operator say, "Your party does not answer."†
Chpt 1.10
- " He stopped, because the others were looking at him severely, in reproof for the breach of an unwritten law: one did not mention a failure of this kind, one did not discuss the mysterious ways of Jim's powerful friendships or why they had failed him.†
Chpt 2.5 *
- Her face did not change, but a fault note in her voice acknowledged him, a note of gentleness, not reproof: "The old maps of the days before the tunnel.†
Chpt 2.8
- His look of accusation, as he whirled to Rearden, broke against the faintly contemptuous reproof of Rearden's voice: "That's no way to guard a building-if this is what you allowed to happen.†
Chpt 3.10
Definition:
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(reprove) express disapproval or criticism -- typically in a mild manner & sometimes even in a friendly manner