reproof

Example Sentences

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If Jim has taken your boyfriend’s reproof seriously, you could decide to let bygones be bygones, but if his appalling behavior resumes, the respectful thing to do is to let your friend know.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2022

When a boy in the front row decides to visit the girl sitting behind him, Hood gives him a gentle reproof.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2021

McQueen’s separate reproof to his industry for being slow to change was prompted by a recent visit to a film set in which a friend of his was working.

From The Guardian • Jun. 20, 2020

With it, the architect proved the power of a poetic modernism, full of whimsy and romance, and offered a reproof to the lean, functional modernism of an earlier generation of architects.

From Washington Post • Jun. 12, 2019

“Thee doesn’t become a Quaker just to escape the Meeting,” she said, and Kit flushed at the gentle reproof in her tone.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare