reproachful
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Reproachful eyes were turned on Curly, but he went on.
From Heart's Desire by Hough, Emerson
The argument leaves me, though ever more sure, Reproachful and angry and sullen and dumb: It leaves her reforming my diet, to cure My rum-ti-tiddily-um-ti-tum.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CLVIII, January 7, 1920 by Various
What is wanting among Women, as well as among Men, is the Love of laudable Things, and not to rest only in the Forbearance of such as are Reproachful.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph
Reproachful, yet pitying, as the eyes of Buddha are your eyes, my Sergius!
From Temporal Power by Corelli, Marie
Reproachful with each other, suspicious of their neighbours, and gloomy in themselves, they were still greater strangers to civilized manners than to social morality.
From The Wanderer (Volume 5 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny
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Power Suffix: -ful
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