reproachful
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That reputation is understandable when you read Coward’s reproachful articles addressed to the Angry Young Men of post-World War II British drama, urging them to “Consider the public.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2021
One of the girls, Lily, starts crying, and the camera pans to Chloe as she pulls a reproachful face.
From BBC • Sep. 25, 2021
At its centre is Makiko, an ageing bar hostess and single mother to Midoriko, her reproachful adolescent daughter, who will only communicate with her in writing.
From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2020
For the rest of the trip, I went barefaced and endured the reproachful glares of my fellow shoppers.
From The Verge • Apr. 8, 2020
“I’ll try, but it was a very ungentlemanly thing to do, I didn’t think you could be so sly and malicious, Laurie,” replied Meg, trying to hide her maidenly confusion under a gravely reproachful air.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
Vocabulary lists containing reproachful
Power Suffix: -ful
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