Reproachful

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  • adjective. Expressing reproach or blame.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective
    • Word Usage
    ""So," said my grandmother to my grandfather, in reproachful tones, "you 've gone and shut the calf up from its mother.""
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