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

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

So you’ve got to really prove and reprove yourself over and over and over again just to get an opportunity.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2012

Upbraid, up-brād′, v.t. to charge with something wrong or disgraceful: to reproach: to reprove severely.—v.i. to utter reproaches.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

In a club a testy gentleman behind whose favorite armchair a bomb has just torn a gaping hole in floor and ceiling reproves an anxious flunkey: "I'm perfectly aware of that."

From Time Magazine Archive

Who reproves in love and sadness Is like him, in days of gladness, Who pours balsam over me That by Jordan floweth free.

From Paul Gerhardt's Spiritual Songs Translated by John Kelly by Paul Gerhardt

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

People also lose coverage, however, because constantly proving and reproving eligibility is onerous — especially if you’re poor, not particularly adept at navigating red tape or don’t have stable housing.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2022

“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

“Tom, Tom, if I knew I couldn’t tell you,” said Slughorn, wagging a reproving, sugar-covered finger at Riddle, though ruining the effect slightly by winking.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling