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reproachful
adjective as in abusive
adjective as in admonishing
Strong match
Weak matches
adjective as in admonitory
Weak matches
adjective as in critical
Strongest match
Weak matches
- analytical
- belittling
- biting
- calumniatory
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- cavillous
- censorious
- censuring
- choleric
- condemning
- critic
- cutting
- cynical
- demeaning
- derogatory
- diagnostic
- disapproving
- discerning
- discriminating
- disparaging
- exacting
- exceptive
- finicky
- fussy
- hairsplitting
- humbling
- hypercritical
- lowering
- nagging
- niggling
- nit-picking
- overcritical
- particular
- penetrating
- sarcastic
- satirical
- scolding
- severe
- sharp
- trenchant
- withering
adjective as in derogatory
adjective as in overcritical
Weak matches
- analytical
- belittling
- biting
- calumniatory
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- cavillous
- censorious
- censuring
- choleric
- condemning
- critic
- cutting
- cynical
- demanding
- demeaning
- derogatory
- diagnostic
- disapproving
- discerning
- discriminating
- disparaging
- exacting
- exceptive
- faultfinding
- finicky
- fussy
- hairsplitting
- humbling
- hypercritical
- lowering
- nagging
- niggling
- nit-picking
- particular
- penetrating
- sarcastic
- satirical
- scolding
- severe
- sharp
- trenchant
- withering
Example Sentences
Sick with jealousy and spite, she bowed as she passed, trying to look eighteen, and tenderly reproachful.
Something in the tone of the man seemed to his listener uncalled for—in a sense reproachful, singular.
If he had expected to find her languishing, reproachful, or indulging in sentimental tears, he must have been greatly surprised.
I whispered, in a tone strangely in contrast with the angry and reproachful air I had assumed.
His stump of a tail drooped dejectedly as he looked at her with big reproachful eyes.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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