reprove

Alone, I reprove the thought as fantasy, a secret desire to sever myself from the man who has abandoned me twice.

From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2021

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

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

From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2015

Everyone on Capitol Hill is focused on squeezing months worth of work into several days, so the panel’s decision to clear two members and reprove two others was like an end-of-the-year document dump.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2014

Nor did Dame Eliza reprove her carol, but half smiled as Oceanus crowed and beat a pan wildly with his Christmas horse.

From A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 by Marion Ames Taggart

“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

Your reviewer reproves me for "sardonic excesses," saying I am "capable of snapping that a man with a dicebox might grant and deny paroles as fairly as most boards."

From Time Magazine Archive

And the author gently reproves old computer hands irritated by the latest category of social bore, the newly minted fanatic.

From Time Magazine Archive

He wittily reproves English ignorance as to the status of women in America; but has he not himself forgotten Wyoming?

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

And being of the older generation, he could not be reproved.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

“There’s a dad that’s not doing it,” she repeated — less incredulous than reproving now.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2025

He’s become less circumspect about reproving the manners of high-born courtiers around him—and despite their pride in their own chivalry, they are indeed a boorish lot.

From Slate ● Mar. 12, 2020

“There is no part of the country where opinion is narrower than it is here,” Mr. Brooke tells a reproving neighbor, Mrs. Cadwallader, the rector’s wife.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 21, 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

Cass jumped excitedly at the prospect, but Penelope threw her a reproving look.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood