reproachful

Example Sentences

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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

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 gave him a reproachful look and walked off without responding, but already, I suppose, I’d begun to entertain the possibility that he wasn’t, after all, making it up about Miss Lucy.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro