reprove

“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

“You have to reprove yourself in order to establish your credibility.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2015

Sui-tshuen also heard the venerable old man with the black robe reprove Confucius for having omitted in his books clearly to expound the true doctrine.

From Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) by Augustus F. Lindley

“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

And the author gently reproves old computer hands irritated by the latest category of social bore, the newly minted fanatic.

From Time Magazine Archive

It reproves any candidate who isn't making his weight.

From Time Magazine Archive

If the Easy Chair reproves certain fellow-sinners for remissness in doing their duty, and for that offence is a scold, what is the censor who scolds the Easy Chair for scolding?

From From the Easy Chair, series 2 by George William Curtis

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

And being of the older generation, he could not be reproved.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

Today, children are more likely to have to go to a chain grocery store for candy, and odds are they’d have to be driven there, and escorted through the purchase by a reproving adult.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

“There’s a dad that’s not doing it,” she repeated — less incredulous than reproving now.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2025

He’s become less circumspect about reproving the manners of high-born courtiers around him—and despite their pride in their own chivalry, they are indeed a boorish lot.

From Slate ● Mar. 12, 2020

“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

He turned on his heel and stormed out of the library, earning himself a reproving glare from Madam Pince, who was polishing the gilded cover of a large spell book.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling