Sample Sentences for
reprove
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    "You're late, boys!" said Professor Flitwick reprovingly as Harry opened the classroom door.  (source)
    reprovingly = disapprovingly
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    Already Nathan's obsession with guilt and God's reproof was infecting me.  (source)
    reproof = criticism
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    Poirot shook his head reprovingly.  (source)
    reprovingly = in a critical manner
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    The old woman's voice was so lacking in command and reproof ... that Janie half believed that Nanny had not seen her.  (source)
    reproof = criticism
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    Marilla smothered a smile under the conviction that Anne must be reproved for such a speech.  (source)
    reproved = criticized
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    She perceived our confusion, and shook her head reprovingly.  (source)
    reprovingly = in a critical manner
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    ...the voice of a reproving conscience.  (source)
    reproving = criticizing
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    But he had an approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove.  (source)
    reprove = express disapproval
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    Little sentences, little reproofs reminding me every hour, every day.  (source)
    reproofs = criticisms
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    The pain of sitting on the narrow bench was such that often he got up and walked about, unreproved by the telescreen.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unreproved means not and reverses the meaning of reproved. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Miss Bart stared in affected reproval.†  (source)
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    And my own son reproves me because I haven't given him religious instruction.†  (source)
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    The quick vision that his life was after all a failure, that he was a dishonored man, and must quail before the glance of those towards whom he had habitually assumed the attitude of a reprover—that God had disowned him before men and left him unscreened to the triumphant scorn of those who were glad to have their hatred justified—the sense of utter futility in that equivocation with his conscience in dealing with the life of his accomplice, an equivocation which now turned venomously upon him with the full-grown fang of a discovered lie:—all this rushed through him like the agony of terror which fails to kill, and leaves the ears still open to the returning wave of execration.†  (source)
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