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REPROACHFUL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective
Synonyms:
admonishing; admonitory; reproachful; reproving
Classified under:
Similar:
unfavorable; unfavourable (not encouraging or approving or pleasing)
Context examples:
"Don't, that's her name for me!" and Laurie put up his hand with a quick gesture to stop the words spoken in Jo's half-kind, half-reproachful tone.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Littimer was in my room in the morning before I was up, to bring me that reproachful shaving-water, and to put out my clothes.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He did not soon forget the reproachful glance Amy gave him, as she went, without a word to anyone, straight into the anteroom, snatched her things, and left the place forever, as she passionately declared to herself.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Oh, my dear, you never deserved it, and I loved you far too well to say a reproachful word to you, in earnest—it was all the merit I had, except being pretty—or you thought me so.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"I'll try, but it was a very ungentlemanly thing to do, I didn't think you could be so sly and malicious, Laurie," replied Meg, trying to hide her maidenly confusion under a gravely reproachful air.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
With an appealing, almost a reproachful, glance, she rose from the window; and hurrying across the room as if without knowing where, put her hands before her face, and burst into such tears as smote me to the heart.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She looked up at the lowering sky, down at the crimson bow already flecked with black, forward along the muddy street, then one long, lingering look behind, at a certain grimy warehouse, with 'Hoffmann, Swartz, & Co.' over the door, and said to herself, with a sternly reproachful air...
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I entreated her to tell Dora, if Dora were in a state to hear it, that he had spoken to me with the utmost kindness and consideration; and had coupled nothing but tenderness, not a single or reproachful word, with her name.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
When John came down at last, expecting to find a pensive or reproachful wife, he was agreeably surprised to find Meg placidly trimming a bonnet, and to be greeted with the request to read something about the election, if he was not too tired.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
But I was no sooner turned towards it, than my reproachful young conscience seemed to point that way with a ready finger; and I felt, all the more for the sinking of my spirits, that it was my nest, and that my mother was my comforter and friend.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
