reproach

England players were on the receiving end of a half-time reproach from manager Thomas Tuchel as their World Cup campaign got off to a victorious start against Croatia.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

Allies of Mahmood also said that she considers the Supreme Court's judgement on the issue of trans rights to be "beyond reproach".

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2025

Governor Robert Orr, R-Ind., was disciplined and kind and his ethics were beyond reproach.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2024

“In fact, following our efforts, our state-of-the-art compliance program has been repeatedly acknowledged as impressive and above reproach by outside parties.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2024

I wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common, that he might be worthier of my society and less open to Estella’s reproach.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

His notebooks, newly republished in an English translation by Ryan Bloom, are full of similar passages in which Camus reproaches himself to get to work and stay true to his beliefs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

The tirade, an unusually direct and pointed outburst on an island where such reproaches are typically not tolerated, went viral shortly after publication.

From Reuters ● Jun. 13, 2022

That’s why we saw so many ghosts: They are both warnings and reproaches.

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2020

Still, “Guy” ensures that, whenever Earle’s next meeting with Clark may come, Earle has done well by his old friend with this heartfelt tribute and there’ll be no need for reproaches.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 27, 2019

This left me on my own to face the difficult task of improving myself so I wouldn’t have to hear their reproaches, because they made me so despondent.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

When Vernice tries to persuade Annie to aim higher, she is reproached by her friend: “Stop acting like me and you knit with the same needles.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

Welsh Labour MP Steve Witherden has apologised after being reproached for drinking milk from a carton in the House of Commons last week.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2024

I reproached him for telling people that the medical and scientific profession was lying to them while he, a proven fraud, was not.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 29, 2023

"Everyone reproached us for having a quantity of money tied up in a system where we could not decide anything," said a source close to Renault.

From Reuters ● Feb. 6, 2023

He reproached us for being elderly middle-class intellectuals who identified with the movie’s right-wing authorities instead of with the bikers.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Simeone could be seen inside the bus reproaching the Sociedad fans who continued to chant and insult the visitors before police intervention.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2022

It appeared clear to Elder that the presidential candidate was reproaching the journalist out for waffling on an important story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2021

The current reproaching of Amazon in the popular press often traces back to Mr. Bezos.

From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2021

For the first time, Pan has had experiences Lyra knows nothing about, and the pair can be seen bickering and reproaching each other with a seriousness never evident in His Dark Materials.

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2020

He shook his head, sadly and heavily, as if he were reproaching her and it was a sorrow to him, but he was doing it for her own good.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman