reprove
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“I always feel like you have to reprove yourself,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2024
He refused to see a doctor because he didn’t want his mission president to reprove him.
From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2015
Scalia’ll reprove ya With some jurisprudential effluvia, Then, with scowling harrumph And a baleful galumph, He’ll trudge homeward to Antediluvia.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2015
“You have to reprove yourself in order to establish your credibility.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2015
V. Yet with his courage and his power Combined such sweetness and such love, He could revere the simplest flower, The vilest sinners firm reprove.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller
“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
It reproves any candidate who isn't making his weight.
From Time Magazine Archive
And when he mildly reproves the younger son for some particularly brattish behavior, Sophia indignantly tells him: "Try to be a parent, not a policeman."
From Time Magazine Archive
Let us see what Paul thinks of them and how he reproves them.
From Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Martin Luther
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
When Donnersmarck reached for a Snickers, his mother shot him a reproving look.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 14, 2019
I was the first one to giggle, and on my second giggle I got a sternly reproving look from the man sitting ahead of me.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2015
It makes him sound like a reproving parent.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2012
They bought groceries up the hill at the Thrift Market because they could not stand the reproving eyes of Lee Chong.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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