reproach

Messrs. Robey and Light understand that police officers aren’t above reproach and that racism in this country still exists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

"I can't reproach my players. Whether we are tired or not I don't care. This is a World Cup semi-final."

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

“NOT TRUE. I praised Acting AG Blanche’s management of this Herculean task. I said his ethics are beyond reproach and that he is an incredible Attorney General,” Bondi wrote on X.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

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

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2024

So there’s no need for you to reproach yourself because you think you’re taking something I was entitled to; nothing could be further from the truth.

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

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

The Anti-Defamation League has frequently had to issue reproaches such as, “Glib comparisons to Nazi Germany are offensive and a trivialization of the Holocaust.”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 11, 2021

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

She could not remember ever being truly happy in her adult life; her years with her mother had been built up devotedly around small guilts and small reproaches, constant weariness, and unending despair.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson

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

Thus Penelope reproached her son, and he replied.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

But the investigators reserved their sharpest criticism for Dr. Wang, reproaching him for “long-standing and egregious misconduct in data management and record keeping.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2023

Instead of reproaching her, he ended up comforting her and patting her on the shoulder, she said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 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

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

His daughter Barbara was reproaching him for writing ridiculous letters to the newspapers.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut