All 13 Uses
reproach
in
The Return of the Native
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- If I had known you wished to call me up here only to reproach me, I wouldn't have come.†
Chpt 1 *reproach = a criticism; or to express criticism
- She could show a most reproachful look at times, but it was directed less against human beings than against certain creatures of her mind, the chief of these being Destiny, through whose interference she dimly fancied it arose that love alighted only on gliding youth—that any love she might win would sink simultaneously with the sand in the glass.†
Chpt 1reproachful = critical (full of criticism)
- "No, no. Don't let your mind so mislead your ears, Christian; and be a man," said Timothy reproachfully.†
Chpt 2reproachfully = in a manner that criticizes
- That these are not what they were towards you may, perhaps, be a fault in me, but it is one which you can scarcely reproach me for when you remember how you left me for Thomasin.†
Chpt 2reproach = a criticism; or to express criticism
- "You mistake me," she answered, reviving at his reproach.†
Chpt 4
- O, Damon, don't reproach me any more—I can't bear that.†
Chpt 4
- To sit by him hour after hour, and hear him reproach himself as being the cause of her death, and to know that I am the sinner, if any human being is at all, drives me into cold despair.†
Chpt 5
- Come to me, then, even if you reproach me.†
Chpt 5
- "He!" said Thomasin reproachfully.†
Chpt 5reproachfully = in a manner that criticizes
- He had no enemies, and he could get nobody to reproach him, which was why he so bitterly reproached himself.†
Chpt 6reproach = a criticism; or to express criticism
- He had no enemies, and he could get nobody to reproach him, which was why he so bitterly reproached himself.†
Chpt 6reproached = criticized
- She looked at him reproachfully.†
Chpt 6reproachfully = in a manner that criticizes
- "O Diggory, how wicked!" said Thomasin reproachfully, and looking at him in exact balance between taking his words seriously and judging them as said to tease her.†
Chpt 6
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)