All 15 Uses of
reproach
in
Great Expectations
- She made it a powerful merit in herself, and a strong reproach against Joe, that she wore this apron so much.†
Chpt 2
- Joe gave a reproachful cough, as much as to say, "Well, I told you so."†
Chpt 2
- Upon which my sister fixed me with her eye, and said, in a low reproachful voice, "Do you hear that?†
Chpt 4
- And couldn't Uncle Pumblechook, being always considerate and thoughtful for us—though you may not think it, Joseph," in a tone of the deepest reproach, as if he were the most callous of nephews, "then mention this boy, standing Prancing here" —which I solemnly declare I was not doing—"that I have for ever been a willing slave to?"†
Chpt 7
- "No, Joseph," said my sister, still in a reproachful manner, while Joe apologetically drew the back of his hand across and across his nose, "you do not yet—though you may not think it—know the case.†
Chpt 7
- —and departed with the words reproachfully delivered: "Boy!†
Chpt 8
- I wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common, that he might be worthier of my society and less open to Estella's reproach.
Chpt 15 *reproach = criticism
- Yet in the London streets so crowded with people and so brilliantly lighted in the dusk of evening, there were depressing hints of reproaches for that I had put the poor old kitchen at home so far away; and in the dead of night, the footsteps of some incapable impostor of a porter mooning about Barnard's Inn, under pretence of watching it, fell hollow on my heart.†
Chpt 22
- Still, Mrs. Pocket was in general the object of a queer sort of respectful pity, because she had not married a title; while Mr. Pocket was the object of a queer sort of forgiving reproach, because he had never got one.†
Chpt 23
- Joe looked at me for a single instant with something faintly like reproach.†
Chpt 27
- It was not so much a reproach as an irresistible thinking aloud.†
Chpt 35
- "What?" said Estella, preserving her attitude of indifference as she leaned against the great chimney-piece and only moving her eyes; "do you reproach me for being cold?†
Chpt 38
- And in his last breath reproached me for stooping to a boor!†
Chpt 38
- But I was softened by the softened aspect of the man, and felt a touch of reproach.†
Chpt 39
- "Every man's business," said Wemmick, rather reproachfully towards me, "is portable property."†
Chpt 51
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.