reprove

“I always feel like you have to reprove yourself,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2024

Alone, I reprove the thought as fantasy, a secret desire to sever myself from the man who has abandoned me twice.

From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2021

Everyone on Capitol Hill is focused on squeezing months worth of work into several days, so the panel’s decision to clear two members and reprove two others was like an end-of-the-year document dump.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2014

So you’ve got to really prove and reprove yourself over and over and over again just to get an opportunity.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2012

He could reprove folly with a frown that a man must be all a fool if he did not feel.

From Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Thomas Coleman

“I could do without becoming known as the man who has a hugger for a son,” he reproves when Cal tries to embrace him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

Jack’s shoulders are slumped forward, his arms crossed, while John’s maternal aunt Annie reproves him with an extended finger.

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2018

Samples: >A boatman who reproves the hero for offering him a high fee in the face of danger.

From Time Magazine Archive

Your reviewer reproves me for "sardonic excesses," saying I am "capable of snapping that a man with a dicebox might grant and deny paroles as fairly as most boards."

From Time Magazine Archive

Also there is a lighthouse called the North Foreland on a hill behind the village, a severe parsonic light, which reproves the young and giddy floaters, and stares grimly out upon the sea.

From A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land by William R. (William Richard) Hughes

Mr. Meadows was also reproved by the House Ethics Committee in 2018 for mishandling sexual harassment allegations against a top aide.

From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2020

Both lawmakers were reproved by the Ethics Committee.”

From Fox News ● Nov. 16, 2018

“We must all take responsibility for using facts correctly and for verifying anything we spread,” Stefan Lofven, the Swedish prime minister, reproved Trump at a news conference.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2017

He was immediately reproved by scores of his readers, as well as by a commentary in The Economist, “The World Is His Parking Spot,” that applied basic social cost-benefit analysis.

From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2011

And being of the older generation, he could not be reproved.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

Hudson: No matter how much you prove yourself, you’re always still reproving yourself.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2025

People also lose coverage, however, because constantly proving and reproving eligibility is onerous — especially if you’re poor, not particularly adept at navigating red tape or don’t have stable housing.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2022

“There is no part of the country where opinion is narrower than it is here,” Mr. Brooke tells a reproving neighbor, Mrs. Cadwallader, the rector’s wife.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 21, 2019

The robot never reacts in a reproving or dismissive way when the child behaves inappropriately.

From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2018

Jasper snickered and Esme gave Edward a reproving look.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer