reprove
Example Sentences
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That includes making do with less as they reestablish their place in society, rethink their careers and reprove their worth.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2021
He refused to see a doctor because he didn’t want his mission president to reprove him.
From Slate • Oct. 13, 2015
Scalia’ll reprove ya With some jurisprudential effluvia, Then, with scowling harrumph And a baleful galumph, He’ll trudge homeward to Antediluvia.
From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2015
But in Hollywood it's really tough to change genres, you have to reprove yourself.
From Salon • Apr. 14, 2011
Whilst these persons are vainly boasting of their respective conditions, they are encountered by three horrible spectres in the shape of dead human bodies covered with worms, who very severely reprove them for their arrogance.
From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Douce, Francis
Vocabulary lists containing reprove
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