reproach

And when one of us finally came padding down the wooden stairs, sleepy and rumpled and operating on a schedule she would never have personally endorsed, there was no reproach.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 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

Ocean Vuong’s magnificent and melancholy second novel, “The Emperor of Gladness,” is both ode and reproach.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2025

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

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2024

Therefore, having summarized all the Duke’s actions, I would not know how to reproach him.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

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

Still, “Guy” ensures that, whenever Earle’s next meeting with Clark may come, Earle has done well by his old friend with this heartfelt tribute and there’ll be no need for reproaches.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 27, 2019

She could not remember ever being truly happy in her adult life; her years with her mother had been built up devotedly around small guilts and small reproaches, constant weariness, and unending despair.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson

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

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

"Everyone reproached us for having a quantity of money tied up in a system where we could not decide anything," said a source close to Renault.

From Reuters ● Feb. 6, 2023

“Don’t cry like that,” my grandmother reproached her.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

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

The current reproaching of Amazon in the popular press often traces back to Mr. Bezos.

From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2021

He was grateful, too, for the way she had of never really reproaching him for anything.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols