3 uses
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Definition
to criticize someone by telling them what they did wrong — often in a formal manner
- I took each reprimand for what it was: an awareness that the specificity of my rape did not matter, but only how and if it conformed to an established charge.Chapter Two (59% in)
- His tone was a reprimand, now that I already had.Chapter Nine (43% in)
- I didn't know what he meant or how to respond to the reprimand.Chapter Ten (95% in)
There are no more uses of "reprimand" in Lucky by Sebold.
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