reproach
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“That line of Lucy’s is intended to be a sharp reproach of that dismissal,” adds Song.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2025
"Personally, it was worse for me after my massive mistake in 2014. But there's nothing that I would reproach."
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2024
But former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani said the judge's reproach was a worrying sign for Mr Trump's team.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2024
Simpson was led by the public's perception, or his interpretation of it, that enough ubiquity and money places a person beyond reproach.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2024
The word beneath it, black against blackness, seemed to reproach: Folly.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
His notebooks, newly republished in an English translation by Ryan Bloom, are full of similar passages in which Camus reproaches himself to get to work and stay true to his beliefs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
The tirade, an unusually direct and pointed outburst on an island where such reproaches are typically not tolerated, went viral shortly after publication.
From Reuters ● Jun. 13, 2022
The Anti-Defamation League has frequently had to issue reproaches such as, “Glib comparisons to Nazi Germany are offensive and a trivialization of the Holocaust.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 11, 2021
Still, “Guy” ensures that, whenever Earle’s next meeting with Clark may come, Earle has done well by his old friend with this heartfelt tribute and there’ll be no need for reproaches.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 27, 2019
Wishes, thoughts, accusations and reproaches are swirling around in my head.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
When Vernice tries to persuade Annie to aim higher, she is reproached by her friend: “Stop acting like me and you knit with the same needles.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
Welsh Labour MP Steve Witherden has apologised after being reproached for drinking milk from a carton in the House of Commons last week.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2024
I reproached him for telling people that the medical and scientific profession was lying to them while he, a proven fraud, was not.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 29, 2023
"Everyone reproached us for having a quantity of money tied up in a system where we could not decide anything," said a source close to Renault.
From Reuters ● Feb. 6, 2023
Mr. Kugler has reproached us for our carelessness.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
Simeone could be seen inside the bus reproaching Sociedad fans who continued to chant and insult the visitors before police intervention.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2022
It appeared clear to Elder that the presidential candidate was reproaching the journalist out for waffling on an important story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2021
The current reproaching of Amazon in the popular press often traces back to Mr. Bezos.
From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2021
For the first time, Pan has had experiences Lyra knows nothing about, and the pair can be seen bickering and reproaching each other with a seriousness never evident in His Dark Materials.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2020
“But he’ll cry himself sick,” pleaded Meg, reproaching herself for deserting her boy.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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