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reproval

[ri-proo-vuhl] / rɪˈpru vəl /
NOUN
admonition
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STRONGEST




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The letter of reproval is made public when the ethics committee issues its final report on its investigation.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2023

A letter of reproval is the mildest form of punishment at the ethics committee’s disposal.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2023

Born with female anatomy, Kobabe didn’t feel like a girl, which became apparent in third grade when wading shirtless in a river during a class trip drew a reproval from the teacher.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2022

Veteran L.A. lawyer Carl Douglas, who is Black and was given a public reproval in 1997 for allowing his secretary and investigator to sign subpoenas in his name while he worked on O.J.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2022

Hence history takes alternately the form of reproval and of panegyric; and science in its pulverized state, in its shapeless and colourless atoms, assumes the name of metaphysics.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage