reprove

That includes making do with less as they reestablish their place in society, rethink their careers and reprove their worth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2021

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

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

From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2015

So you’ve got to really prove and reprove yourself over and over and over again just to get an opportunity.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2012

He complained very softly of the woman; begged that I would reprove her for what she had said to him, as he had heard his name mentioned.

From Memoirs of Leonora Christina Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark; Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 by Leonora Christina Ulfeldt

“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

Samples: >A boatman who reproves the hero for offering him a high fee in the face of danger.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a club a testy gentleman behind whose favorite armchair a bomb has just torn a gaping hole in floor and ceiling reproves an anxious flunkey: "I'm perfectly aware of that."

From Time Magazine Archive

When the teacher reproves a child, every man, woman, and child feels it his or her duty to yell out too at the offender and tell him to obey the teacher.

From Women of Achievement Written for the Fireside Schools by Benjamin Griffith Brawley

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

“Nobody’s blaming you for anything,” the doctor said, and Eleanor felt that she had been reproved.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson

People also lose coverage, however, because constantly proving and reproving eligibility is onerous — especially if you’re poor, not particularly adept at navigating red tape or don’t have stable housing.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2022

When Donnersmarck reached for a Snickers, his mother shot him a reproving look.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 14, 2019

Today, she looks thin but healthy, her eyes radiating a quizzical alertness that can be almost unsettling when she occasionally fixes you with a slightly reproving stare.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 29, 2018

But she does put it to coolly subversive use. At social gatherings she turns her grin into a shield, a mask of contentment that can clench, without warning, into a reproving stare.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2017

“I still can’t hear you,” Aarfy called back innocently with an expression of mild and reproving perplexity.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller