reprove
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“I always feel like you have to reprove yourself,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2024
Alone, I reprove the thought as fantasy, a secret desire to sever myself from the man who has abandoned me twice.
From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2021
He refused to see a doctor because he didn’t want his mission president to reprove him.
From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2015
Everyone on Capitol Hill is focused on squeezing months worth of work into several days, so the panel’s decision to clear two members and reprove two others was like an end-of-the-year document dump.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2014
We reprove and condemn it as violating the natural law, the law of nations, the public fidelity to treaties.
From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Cunningham
“I could do without becoming known as the man who has a hugger for a son,” he reproves when Cal tries to embrace him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Jack’s shoulders are slumped forward, his arms crossed, while John’s maternal aunt Annie reproves him with an extended finger.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2018
It reproves any candidate who isn't making his weight.
From Time Magazine Archive
And the author gently reproves old computer hands irritated by the latest category of social bore, the newly minted fanatic.
From Time Magazine Archive
He wittily reproves English ignorance as to the status of women in America; but has he not himself forgotten Wyoming?
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Robert Louis Stevenson
Mr. Meadows was also reproved by the House Ethics Committee in 2018 for mishandling sexual harassment allegations against a top aide.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2020
Both lawmakers were reproved by the Ethics Committee.”
From Fox News ● Nov. 16, 2018
“We must all take responsibility for using facts correctly and for verifying anything we spread,” Stefan Lofven, the Swedish prime minister, reproved Trump at a news conference.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2017
He was immediately reproved by scores of his readers, as well as by a commentary in The Economist, “The World Is His Parking Spot,” that applied basic social cost-benefit analysis.
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2011
But she also felt reproved for her homebound boredom.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
“There’s a dad that’s not doing it,” she repeated — less incredulous than reproving now.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2025
“There is no part of the country where opinion is narrower than it is here,” Mr. Brooke tells a reproving neighbor, Mrs. Cadwallader, the rector’s wife.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 21, 2019
I was the first one to giggle, and on my second giggle I got a sternly reproving look from the man sitting ahead of me.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2015
It makes him sound like a reproving parent.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2012
Jasper snickered and Esme gave Edward a reproving look.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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