reproachful
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Reproachful spectres crowded the air, animated and vocal, not in the articulate language of mortals but assailing him with faint sobs, deep sighs, and fateful gestures.
From The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows by Conrad, Joseph
Reproachful tears stood in her eyes; she fastened her dress with indignant fingers.
From The Iron Woman by Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell
Reproachful, yet pitying, as the eyes of Buddha are your eyes, my Sergius!
From Temporal Power by Corelli, Marie
In the sounding porch The goats he tied, then, drawing near, in terms Reproachful thus assail’d Ulysses’ ear.
From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William
They looked at me Reproachful; how I longed to set them free!
From Counter-Attack and Other Poems by Sassoon, Siegfried
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Power Suffix: -ful
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