reproach

[Re*proach·]

Reproach means to mildly criticize. If you show poor manners at your grandmother's dinner table, she will reproach you.

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To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace.

Noun
a mild rebuke or criticism; "words of reproach"

Noun
disgrace or shame; "he brought reproach upon his family"

Verb
express criticism towards; "The president reproached the general for his irresponsible behavior"


v. t.
To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace.

v. t.
To attribute blame to; to allege something disgraceful against; to charge with a fault; to censure severely or contemptuously; to upbraid.

v.
The act of reproaching; censure mingled with contempt; contumelious or opprobrious language toward any person; abusive reflections; as, severe reproach.

v.
A cause of blame or censure; shame; disgrace.

v.
An object of blame, censure, scorn, or derision.


Reproach

Re*proach" (r?-pr?ch"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reproached (-pr?cht"); p. pr. & vb. n. Reproaching.] [F. reprocher, OF. reprochier, (assumed) LL. reproriare; L. pref. re- again, against, back + prope near; hence, originally, to bring near to, throw in one's teeth. Cf. Approach.] 1. To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace. [Obs.]
I thought your marriage fit; else imputation, For that he knew you, might reproach your life.
2. To attribute blame to; to allege something disgracefull against; to charge with a fault; to censure severely or contemptuously; to upbraid.
If ye be reproached for the name of Christ.
That this newcomer, Shame, There sit not, and reproach us as unclean.
Mezentius . . . with his ardor warmed His fainting friends, reproached their shameful flight. Repelled the victors.
Syn. -- To upbraid; censure; blame; chide; rebuke; condemn; revile; vilify.

Reproach

Re*proach", n. [F. reproche. See Reproach, v.] 1. The act of reproaching; censure mingled with contempt; contumelious or opprobrious language toward any person; abusive reflections; as, severe reproach.
No reproaches even, even when pointed and barbed with the sharpest wit, appeared to give him pain.
Give not thine heritage to reproach.
2. A cause of blame or censure; shame; disgrace. 3. An object of blame, censure, scorn, or derision.
Come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
Syn. -- Disrepute; discredit; dishonor; opprobrium; invective; contumely; reviling; abuse; vilification; scurrility; insolence; insult; scorn; contempt; ignominy; shame; scandal;; disgrace; infamy.

To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace.

The act of reproaching; censure mingled with contempt; contumelious or opprobrious language toward any person; abusive reflections; as, severe reproach.

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Usage Examples

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

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