All 40 Uses
reproach
in
Anna Karenina
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- In the habitual conditions of her life she felt again resolute and irreproachable.†
Part 1 *irreproachable = beyond criticismstandard 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.
- "You're always..." she began a string of reproaches.†
Part 2reproaches = criticizes; or criticisms
- While they were saying this, Laska, with ears pricked up, was looking upwards at the sky, and reproachfully at them.†
Part 2reproachfully = in a manner that criticizes
- It was the letter he was expecting—from his mother, reproaching him for not having been to see her—and the note was from his brother to say that he must have a little talk with him.†
Part 2reproaching = criticizing
- Frou-Frou was a beast of medium size, not altogether free from reproach, from a breeder's point of view.†
Part 2reproach = a criticism; or to express criticism
- "Anna," he said, with reproachful tenderness.†
Part 2reproachful = critical (full of criticism)
- "But who is a cheat?" said Varenka reproachfully.†
Part 2reproachfully = in a manner that criticizes
- He read the letter through and felt pleased with it, and especially that he had remembered to enclose money: there was not a harsh word, not a reproach in it, nor was there undue indulgence.†
Part 3reproach = a criticism; or to express criticism
- Her husband might put her to shame and turn her out, Vronsky might grow cold to her and go on living his own life apart (she thought of him again with bitterness and reproach); she could not leave her son.†
Part 3
- In spite of the fact that, preparing herself for meeting him, she had schooled herself to despise and reproach him, she did not know what to say to him, and she felt sorry for him.†
Part 3
- I want you not to meet that man here, and to conduct yourself so that neither the world nor the servants can reproach you...not to see him.†
Part 3
- I should not be able to speak to her without a feeling of reproach; I could not look at her without resentment; and she will only hate me all the more, as she's bound to.†
Part 3
- The soupe Marie-Louise was a splendid success; the tiny pies eaten with it melted in the mouth and were irreproachable.†
Part 4irreproachable = beyond criticismstandard 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.
- "This is my position: you can trample me in the mud, make me the laughing-stock of the world, I will not abandon her, and I will never utter a word of reproach to you," Alexey Alexandrovitch went on.†
Part 4reproach = a criticism; or to express criticism
- Well, what sort of bringing-up can you give your babes if you do not overcome the temptation of the devil, enticing you to infidelity?" he said, with gentle reproachfulness.†
Part 5reproachfulness = the quality of being full of criticism
- The article reproached the government and the academy for letting so remarkable an artist be left without encouragement and support.†
Part 5reproached = criticized
- But as soon as she opened her mouth, a stream of reproach, of senseless jealousy, of all that had been torturing her during that half hour which she had spent sitting motionless at the window, burst from her.†
Part 5reproach = a criticism; or to express criticism
- To remain under such undeserved reproach was wretched, but to make her suffer by justifying himself was worse still.†
Part 5
- He knew not that she was instinctively aware of this, and preparing herself for this time of terrible toil, did not reproach herself for the moments of carelessness and happiness in her love that she enjoyed now while gaily building her nest for the future.†
Part 5
- What are you thinking of?" he said reproachfully.†
Part 5reproachfully = in a manner that criticizes
- The glittering eyes looked sternly and reproachfully at his brother as he drew near.†
Part 5
- Levin immediately felt the reproach in the eyes fixed on him, and felt remorse at his own happiness.†
Part 5reproach = a criticism; or to express criticism
- Before she had finished speaking, there had come back into his face the stern, reproachful expression of the dying man's envy of the living.†
Part 5reproachful = critical (full of criticism)
- He was angry with everyone, and said nasty things to everyone, reproached everyone for his sufferings, and insisted that they should get him a celebrated doctor from Moscow.†
Part 5reproached = criticized
- To all inquiries made him as to how he felt, he made the same answer with an expression of vindictive reproachfulness, "I'm suffering horribly, intolerably!"†
Part 5reproachfulness = the quality of being full of criticism
- His eyes had still the same intense, reproachful look.†
Part 5reproachful = critical (full of criticism)
- How is it he leaves me alone in my misery?" she thought all at once with a feeling of reproach, forgetting she had herself kept from him everything concerning her son.†
Part 5reproach = a criticism; or to express criticism
- He assured her of his love because he saw that this was the only means of soothing her, and he did not reproach her in words, but in his heart he reproached her.†
Part 5
- He assured her of his love because he saw that this was the only means of soothing her, and he did not reproach her in words, but in his heart he reproached her.†
Part 5reproached = criticized
- you want to take Kitty in the wagonette?" her mother said reproachfully.†
Part 6reproachfully = in a manner that criticizes
- In the first place, any reproach would have seemed to be called forth by the danger he had incurred and the bump that had come up on Levin's forehead.†
Part 6reproach = a criticism; or to express criticism
- She began looking more languidly, and gazed back at the sportsmen, as it were, with perplexity or reproach in her eyes.†
Part 6
- Anna did quite right, and certainly I shall never reproach her for it.†
Part 6
- Today was Saturday, and he knew that the letter contained reproaches for not being back at the time fixed.†
Part 6reproaches = criticizes; or criticisms
- Sometimes she inwardly reproached him for his inability to live in the town; sometimes she recognized that it was really hard for him to order his life here so that he could be satisfied with it.†
Part 7reproached = criticized
- The only thing Kitty could reproach herself for at this meeting was that at the instant when she recognized in his civilian dress the features once so familiar to her, her breath failed her, the blood rushed to her heart, and a vivid blush—she felt it—overspread her face.†
Part 7reproach = a criticism; or to express criticism
- But in her eyes there was a tenderness that told him that she was far from reproaching him, that she loved him for her sufferings.†
Part 7reproaching = criticizing
- After being a long time in Moscow without a change, he reached a point when he positively began to be worrying himself over his wife's ill-humor and reproaches, over his children's health and education, and the petty details of his official work; even the fact of being in debt worried him.†
Part 7reproaches = criticizes; or criticisms
- "There you have it—from the epistle of St. James," said Alexey Alexandrovitch, addressing Lidia Ivanovna, with a certain reproachfulness in his tone.†
Part 7reproachfulness = the quality of being full of criticism
- "Yes, and I repeat that the man who reproaches me with having sacrificed everything for me," she said, recalling the words of a still earlier quarrel, "that he's worse than a dishonorable man—he's a heartless man."†
Part 7reproaches = criticizes; or criticisms
Definitions:
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(1)
(reproach) a criticism; or to express criticism or disappointment -- especially where a relationship makes the disapproval result in disappointment or shameThe 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. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)