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Definition
a criticism; or to express criticism — especially where a relationship makes the disapproval result in disappointment or shame
- Mrs. Hickock, a plump woman with a soft, round face un-marred by a lifetime of dawn-to-dark endeavor, reproached him.3 — Answer (8% in)
- Perry's cell adjoined Dick's; though invisible to each other, they could easily converse, yet Perry seldom spoke to Dick, and it wasn't because of any declared animosity between them (after the exchange of a few tepid reproaches, their relationship had turned into one of mutual toleration: the acceptance of uncongenial but helpless Siamese twins); it was because Perry, cautious as always, secretive, suspicious, disliked having the guards and other inmates overhear his "private...4 — The Corner (72% in)
There are no more uses of "reproach" in In Cold Blood.
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