reproval
Example Sentences
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The reference is not to the shellacking he took from pundits or the reprovals of GOP leaders Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 23, 2017
His audience was his tutor, to whose reprovals he was retorting.
From Time Magazine Archive
Grieved at the reprovals he had heaped upon her, the young shepherdess led her sheep to the fold and retired to bed without sharing the family's evening meal.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Sue, Eug?ne
