reprove

“I always feel like you have to reprove yourself,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2024

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

He refused to see a doctor because he didn’t want his mission president to reprove him.

From Slate ● Oct. 13, 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

Admonish, ad-mon′ish, v.t. to warn: to reprove mildly.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

“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

It reproves any candidate who isn't making his weight.

From Time Magazine Archive

Listen to Him as He walks by the way with His disciples; mark how He comforts, reproves, and exhorts with perfect wisdom.

From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by John Charles Ryle

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

“Nobody’s blaming you for anything,” the doctor said, and Eleanor felt that she had been reproved.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson

Hudson: No matter how much you prove yourself, you’re always still reproving yourself.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2025

“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

The robot never reacts in a reproving or dismissive way when the child behaves inappropriately.

From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2018

“Jo does use such slang words!” observed Amy, with a reproving look at the long figure stretched on the rug.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott