reproach

"I can't reproach my players. Whether we are tired or not I don't care. This is a World Cup semi-final."

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

“NOT TRUE. I praised Acting AG Blanche’s management of this Herculean task. I said his ethics are beyond reproach and that he is an incredible Attorney General,” Bondi wrote on X.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

"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

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

This reproach of my dependence had become a vague sing-song in my ear: very painful and crushing, but only half intelligible.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

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

Asked about his unfinished reading, the protagonist says, “No sooner do I buy a new book than it reproaches me for leaving it unread.”

From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2016

“I wish you could have gone, but there is no hope of it this time, so try to bear it cheerfully, and don’t sadden Amy’s pleasure by reproaches or regrets.”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

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

Looking at the tins now, he bitterly reproached himself for his weakness.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

Instead of reproaching her, he ended up comforting her and patting her on the shoulder, she said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 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

Second, critics said Mr. Greenblatt was not explaining the administration’s policies to a skeptical Palestinian audience as much as reproaching their leaders for what he believes is their shortsightedness.

From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2019

In June, he started to send her texts reproaching her for not doing the work he was paying her to do.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2013

He was grateful, too, for the way she had of never really reproaching him for anything.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols