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reproachful

adjective as in admonishing

Strong match

adjective as in admonitory

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Richmond’s history as a Confederate capital and Anthony’s reproachful lyrics have influenced listeners’ hot takes on the song and on Anthony himself, categorizing the red-bearded musician as a conservative too.

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The sister and daughter she plays in “Showing Up” may be a more naturalistic, tamped-down figure, but with her reproachful silences and occasional bursts of fury, she illuminates a different variant of the same condition.

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Seidl, of course, ensures that we notice, arranging these figures in silently reproachful formations at the edges of his meticulously composed tableaux.

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There’s an unmistakably reproachful tone to the unseen correspondent’s voice when she asks one blond boy, “Do you think you’ll be playing with firecrackers anymore?”

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In fact, during that same discussion, hooks was critical of “Orange Is the New Black,” the show that made Cox famous, and reproachful of the way the actress presented herself.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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