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

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

Simpson was led by the public's perception, or his interpretation of it, that enough ubiquity and money places a person beyond reproach.

From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2024

“To reexamine and reproach it through a lens of racial and socioeconomic disparity, with an eye to restorative justice programs and rehabilitation programs for nonviolent offenses.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2024

If they were embarrassed for me, no one made a motion or mouthed a reproach.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

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

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

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2020

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

Although she reproached herself for being “blind,” some critics found fault with her unapologetic stand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 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

Many a time my husband stood aside unable to face the fray: if I had not reproached him his distaste of the whole procedure would have led him to starvation.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

Simeone could be seen inside the bus reproaching 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

Second, critics said Mr. Greenblatt was not explaining the administration’s policies to a skeptical Palestinian audience as much as reproaching their leaders for what he believes is their shortsightedness.

From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2019

When, in the 1930s, some of the remaining Nordophiles began reproaching the Up Helly Aa committee for allowing guizers to choose fancy dress over Viking tunics, Charles Manson, the committee secretary, replied emphatically.

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2015

"It is you! They said it was! Oh Tristran! How could you? Oh, how could you?" and he realized who the young lady reproaching him must be.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman