reprove
Example Sentences
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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
Scalia’ll reprove ya With some jurisprudential effluvia, Then, with scowling harrumph And a baleful galumph, He’ll trudge homeward to Antediluvia.
From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2015
She was relieved, however, to see that her cousin was not really vexed with her, for she had spoken impulsively, forgetting that it was scarcely her place to reprove Paulina, all things considered.
From Fairies Afield by Molesworth, Mrs. (Mary Louisa)
Vocabulary lists containing reprove
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