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How to use reproof in a sentence
Instead of the Clintonian chuckle of disbelief we got the sour grimace of silent reproof.
Simon Schama on How Obama Threw It All Away in the Denver Debate | Simon Schama | October 5, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was a reproof, from the young woman who always so thoughtfully studied the feelings of everybody.
Hilda Lessways | Arnold BennettBut even such reproof may be carried too far as on one occasion I found to my dismay.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph Tatlow
Perhaps some sense of shame was stirring within him, for no reproof rose to his trembling, bibulous lips.
The Weight of the Crown | Fred M. WhiteIts truths, so simple and yet so grand, were at once a guide and a reproof to keep her feet from straying from the narrow way.
The value of a praying mother | Isabel C. ByrumWeston recognized the reproof in this, and stood silent a moment or two until she spoke again.
The Gold Trail | Harold Bindloss
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