Reproaching
[ri'prəutʃɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reproach
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Examples
- But he'll cry himself sick, pleaded Meg, reproaching herself for deserting her boy. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- You are reproaching me, underhanded, with having nobody but you to look to. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- This is strange indeed, when your eyes have been reproaching them every day for incautiousness. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- There on his table, his sister's letter lay reproaching him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I knew that he still had the diary, for when I was in Siberia I had a letter from him once, reproaching me and quoting some passages from its pages. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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