All 24 Uses of
reproach
in
The Fountainhead
- He reproached himself silently; he made a determined effort to feel sorry.†
Chpt 1.2
- But he had gone to her again, a week later; she had not reproached him and they had not mentioned her uncle.†
Chpt 1.5
- "You know, Guy," said Keating, in a tone of patronizing reproach, "you shouldn't have run away like that."†
Chpt 1.10
- Mrs. Keating sat under a lamp, mending a slight tear in the lining of Peter's dinner jacket, reproaching him, between questions, for sitting on the floor in his dress trousers and best formal shirt.†
Chpt 1.12
- He paid no attention to the reproaches or the questions.†
Chpt 1.12
- Then she shrugged, and smiled reproachfully at herself, and went back to the work on her desk.†
Chpt 1.12
- I know that you don't want me to succeed—it's all right, I'm not reproaching you, I've always known it—you don't want me ever to reach these things you're offering me.†
Chpt 1.15
- Kiki Holcombe wrinkled her nose in a cute little pout of reproach, but she liked the comparison to aristocracy.†
Chpt 2.6
- He saw his son's eyes looking at him blankly from behind the small glasses; the eyes were not ostentatiously sweet, not reproachful, not malicious; just blank.†
Chpt 2.9
- A society woman wrote an article on the exotic shrines she had seen in her dangerous jungle travels, praised the touching faith of the savages and reproached modern man for cynicism; the Stoddard Temple, she said, was a symptom of softness and decadence; the illustration showed her in breeches, one slim foot on the neck of a dead lion.†
Chpt 2.12
- "Katie," he said softly, reproachfully, "Katie darling."†
Chpt 2.13
- When the name of Gail Wynand became a threat in the publishing world, a group of newspaper owners took him aside—at a city charity affair which all had to attend—and reproached him for what they called his debasement of the public taste.†
Chpt 3.1
- His mother, whose arguments, opinions, reproaches he had never been able to stop, would not say another word about his marriage.†
Chpt 3.2
- He could find no word or gesture for which to reproach her.†
Chpt 3.2
- And Ellsworth—Ellsworth said you're a reproach to every other female shape on earth.†
Chpt 3.2
- "I don't want you to make excuses for me." He said it simply, without reproach.
Chpt 3.4 *reproach = criticism
- She felt no reproach from it.†
Chpt 3.9
- You've reproached me once for causing you to be obvious.†
Chpt 4.3
- Mrs. Keating offered no suggestions, no reproaches.†
Chpt 4.7
- You're so young…Once I reproached you for being too old and serious…Do you remember when you worked for me at Francon's?†
Chpt 4.8
- You're a reproach.†
Chpt 4.11
- I didn't intend to reproach you in any way.†
Chpt 4.13
- It sounded like a reproach.†
Chpt 4.13
- They both smiled, and she knew that there would be no questions, no reproaches.†
Chpt 4.17
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.