Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Expressing reproach or blame.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Containing or expressing reproach or censure; upbraiding.
  • Scurrilous; opprobrious.
  • Worthy or deserving of, or receiving, reproach; shameful: as, reproachful conduct.
  • Synonyms Rebuking, censuring, upbraiding, censorious, contemptuous, contumelious, abusive.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive.
  • adjective Occasioning or deserving reproach; shameful; base.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive.
  • adjective Occasioning or deserving reproach; shameful; base; as, a reproachful life.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective

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Examples

  • "So," said my grandmother to my grandfather, in reproachful tones, "you 've gone and shut the calf up from its mother."

    Oldtown Folks 1869

  • I guess it was the kind of look you would call reproachful.

    When Lightning Strikes Jenny Carroll 2001

  • I guess it was the kind of look you would call reproachful.

    When Lightning Strikes Jenny Carroll 2001

  • I guess it was the kind of look you would call reproachful.

    When Lightning Strikes Jenny Carroll 2001

  • For what thou callest bitter and reproachful, that is my portion, if I cause thee to be slain who hast shared my toils.

    The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

  • "I wouldn't do this for anybody but you, Cap'n," he vouchsafed, in what might be called a reproachful shout.

    Cap'n Warren's Wards Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • There she took a seat, and with a glance that might almost be termed reproachful, she commenced a low Indian song to her infant.

    The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • I do love how he looks kind of reproachful and humiliated in that first picture .

    » Leashing the Baby Strocel.com 2010

  • Suddenly I understood that all the others were looking at me in a kind of reproachful astonishment.

    Friendship Village Zona Gale 1906

  • And Twitt drew himself up with a kind of reproachful dignity -- "Now, old David, don't go for to say as _you_ don't think so too?"

    The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Marie Corelli 1889

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