reproachful

Example Sentences

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There’s an unmistakably reproachful tone to the unseen correspondent’s voice when she asks one blond boy, “Do you think you’ll be playing with firecrackers anymore?”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2022

One of the girls, Lily, starts crying, and the camera pans to Chloe as she pulls a reproachful face.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2021

Freddie is both drawn and resistant to the movement, violently reproachful of those who question its tenets yet unable to attain its promised enlightenment.

From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2020

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

Once again he saw Jackson’s blue eyes, probing, reproachful.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara