All 17 Uses of
reproach
in
Jude the Obscure
- There lay his book open, just as he had left it, and the capital letters on the title-page regarded him with fixed reproach in the grey starlight, like the unclosed eyes of a dead man: HE KAINE DIATHEKE * * * * * * Jude had to leave early next morning for his usual week of absence at lodgings; and it was with a sense of futility that he threw into his basket upon his tools and other necessaries the unread book he had brought with him.†
Part 1
- The dying animal's cry assumed its third and final tone, the shriek of agony; his glazing eyes riveting themselves on Arabella with the eloquently keen reproach of a creature recognizing at last the treachery of those who had seemed his only friends.†
Part 1
- She addressed him as her dear cousin Jude; said she had only just learnt by the merest accident that he was living in Christminster, and reproached him with not letting her know.†
Part 2
- She impulsively seized his hand, and leaving a reproachful look on the schoolmaster turned away to Jude, her voice revealing a tremor which she herself felt to be absurdly uncalled for by sarcasm so gentle.†
Part 2
- She had acquiesced so readily that he wished he had not proposed it—she evidently did not much care about him, though she had never once reproached him for his strange conduct in coming to her that night, and his silent disappearance.†
Part 3
- He glanced at her and their eyes met, the reproach in his own belying his words.†
Part 3 *
- Her reproach had taken that shape, then, and not the shape of words.†
Part 3
- You had been so very good and kind to me that when you were out of sight I felt what a cruel and ungrateful woman I was to say it, and it has reproached me ever since.†
Part 3
- When she saw how wretched he was she softened, and trying to blink away her sympathetic tears said with all the winning reproachfulness of a heart-hurt woman: "Ah—you should have told me before you gave me that idea that you wanted to be allowed to love me!†
Part 3
- To his great surprise no other than Sue stood like a vision before him—her look bodeful and anxious as in a dream, her little mouth nervous, and her strained eyes speaking reproachful inquiry.†
Part 3
- She reproached him by a glance.†
Part 3
- Of course, if it would make you reproach yourself…. but you do like me very much, Sue?†
Part 4
- "Oh you don't care, you don't care!" he cried in bitter reproach.†
Part 6
- Jude had kept back his own grief on account of her; but he now broke down; and this stimulated Sue to efforts of sympathy which in some degree distracted her from her poignant self-reproach.†
Part 6
- "Don't reproach yourself with being what you are not.†
Part 6
- "How can you ask!" he retorted in quick reproach, for his full heart was wounded to its centre at this attitude of hers towards him.†
Part 6
- But Sue—my wife, as you are!" he burst out; "my old reproach to you was, after all, a true one.†
Part 6
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.