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reproach
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    She brought reproach upon her family.
    reproach = criticism
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    Spare me your words of reproach.
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    The president reproached the general for his irresponsible behavior
    reproached = criticized
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    There was no anger or reproach.  (source)
    reproach = criticism
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    In the middle of the letter, for example, he reproached himself for complaining too much:  (source)
    reproached = criticized
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    I bombarded him with questions and reproaches before he could get a word of explanation in,  (source)
    reproaches = criticisms
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    "You never call me anymore," Hammond said reproachfully.†  (source)
    reproachfully = in a manner that criticizes
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    I hate her, too, with her knowing reproachful eyes that call me a coward, a monster, a puppet of the Capitol,  (source)
    reproachful = critical (full of criticism)
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    "After all," he added silkily, "your own behavior has not, from the purist's point of view, been irreproachable."  (source)
    irreproachable = beyond criticism
    standard affixes: The prefix ir- is often used in front of words that start with R to mean not. That reverses the meaning of the word as seen in words like irrational, irregular, and irresistible. The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    His daughter Barbara was reproaching him for writing ridiculous letters to the newspapers.  (source)
    reproaching = criticizing
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    74:22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.†  (source)
    reproacheth = criticizes
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She reproacheth" in older English, today we say "She reproaches."
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    A year or so earlier, in an unwarrantably self-deprecating paragraph of a letter to her brother Buddy, she had referred to her own figure as "irreproachably Americanese."†  (source)
    irreproachably = in a way that is not subject to criticism
    standard prefix: The prefix "ir-" in irreproachably means not and reverses the meaning of reproachably. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "R" as seen in words like irrational, irregular, and irresistible.
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    Then him Euryalus aloud reproach'd.†  (source)
    reproach'd = criticized
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