reproach's Usage Examples:

When the country was in distress, the queen felt a womanly repugnance for festivities; and yet it was undesirable that the court should incur the The court reproach of living meanly to save money.

Surrey's reproaches for the alleged breach of faith, and a second challenge to fight on Millfield Plain were this time disregarded.

He was also very devout, and his morals were irreproachable.

irreproachable character.

self-questioning intellect examines itself, morally this is conscience which elicits self-reproach.

His cool reproach smarted, but the previous terse answers about his mother should have warned her that it was a touchy subject.

Apropos of hostility towards Samaria, it is singular that the term of reproach, " Cutheans," applied to the Samaritans is derived from Cutha, the famous seat of the god Nergal, only some 25 m.

O'Neill had to look away since he couldn't bear the implied reproach.

often walked by very crooked paths; but the reproach that he allowed his policy to be swayed exclusively by his family interests is unjustified.

His simple manners, easy speech, ardent temperament and irreproachable private life gave him great influence in Paris, and he was elected president of the Commune, defending the municipality in that capacity at the bar of the Convention on the 31st of October 1792.

"Finally, he reproaches Chretien with having told the story amiss, whereas Kiot, the Provençal, whose version Wolfram was following, had told it aright from beginning to end.

All blasphemies against God, as denying His being, or providence, all contumelious reproaches of Jesus Christ, all profane scoffing at the Holy Scriptures, or exposing any part thereof to contempt or ridicule, are punishable by the temporal courts with fine, imprisonment and also infamous corporal punishment.

Synonyms:

self-reproach, reproval, rap, blame, rebuke, reprehension, self-reproof, reprimand, reproof,

Antonyms:

humanize, honor, absolve, blessed, praise,