Sample Sentences for
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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    No, Anne, we have done nothing to deserve such a 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 think he's lovely," said Anne reproachfully.  (source)
    reproachfully = in a disapproving manner
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    Delly says in a reproachful voice, "He did save your life, Peeta."  (source)
    reproachful = manner that indicates Peeta was wrong
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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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    He looked impressive on television. Handsome, 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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    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)
    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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    27:11 My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.†  (source)
    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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    (It's needless to say what the dinner was like that day; Timofeitch in person had galloped off at early dawn for beef; the bailiff had gone off in another direction for turbot, gremille, and crayfish; for mushrooms alone forty-two farthings had been paid the peasant women in copper); but Arina Vlasyevna's eyes, bent steadfastly on Bazarov, did not express only devotion and tenderness; in them was to be seen sorrow also, mingled with awe and curiosity; there was to be seen too a sort of humble reproachfulness†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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