reproach

England players were on the receiving end of a half-time reproach from manager Thomas Tuchel as their World Cup campaign got off to a victorious start against Croatia.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

Allies of Mahmood also said that she considers the Supreme Court's judgement on the issue of trans rights to be "beyond reproach".

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2025

Governor Robert Orr, R-Ind., was disciplined and kind and his ethics were beyond reproach.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2024

“In fact, following our efforts, our state-of-the-art compliance program has been repeatedly acknowledged as impressive and above reproach by outside parties.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2024

There was Robert’s reproach making itself felt by a quicker, fiercer, more overpowering love, which had awakened within her toward him.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

His notebooks, newly republished in an English translation by Ryan Bloom, are full of similar passages in which Camus reproaches himself to get to work and stay true to his beliefs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

The tirade, an unusually direct and pointed outburst on an island where such reproaches are typically not tolerated, went viral shortly after publication.

From Reuters ● Jun. 13, 2022

The Anti-Defamation League has frequently had to issue reproaches such as, “Glib comparisons to Nazi Germany are offensive and a trivialization of the Holocaust.”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 11, 2021

That’s why we saw so many ghosts: They are both warnings and reproaches.

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2020

Wishes, thoughts, accusations and reproaches are swirling around in my head.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

When Vernice tries to persuade Annie to aim higher, she is reproached by her friend: “Stop acting like me and you knit with the same needles.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

Welsh Labour MP Steve Witherden has apologised after being reproached for drinking milk from a carton in the House of Commons last week.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2024

Although she reproached herself for being “blind,” some critics found fault with her unapologetic stand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024

I reproached him for telling people that the medical and scientific profession was lying to them while he, a proven fraud, was not.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 29, 2023

No one, none of the saints in any case, had ever reproached or rebuked his father, or suggested that his life was anything but spotless.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

Buzsáki's article reminds me of my dad reproaching me and my siblings by saying, “You look with your eyes, not your hands.”

From Scientific American ● Sep. 24, 2022

Simeone could be seen inside the bus reproaching Sociedad fans who continued to chant and insult the visitors before police intervention.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2022

It appeared clear to Elder that the presidential candidate was reproaching the journalist out for waffling on an important story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2021

Soon, he even felt comfortable reproaching his mentors.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2019

He offers Celia a packet, and she accepts it without reproaching him.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García