reproachful
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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?”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2022
One of the girls, Lily, starts crying, and the camera pans to Chloe as she pulls a reproachful face.
From BBC • Sep. 25, 2021
Freddie is both drawn and resistant to the movement, violently reproachful of those who question its tenets yet unable to attain its promised enlightenment.
From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2020
For the rest of the trip, I went barefaced and endured the reproachful glares of my fellow shoppers.
From The Verge • Apr. 8, 2020
Elinor cleared her throat and gave Mo a reproachful glance, as if it could only be his fault that his daughter was precocious enough to know such things.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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Power Suffix: -ful
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