Definition of Reproach

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Reproach

To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace.

To attribute blame to; to allege something disgraceful against; to charge with a fault; to censure severely or contemptuously; to upbraid.

The act of reproaching; censure mingled with contempt; contumelious or opprobrious language toward any person; abusive reflections; as, severe reproach.

A cause of blame or censure; shame; disgrace.

An object of blame, censure, scorn, or derision.

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Reproach Quotations

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Aristotle

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
Robert E. Lee

We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.
Anatole France

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
Aleister Crowley

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
Louisa May Alcott

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
Tacitus

Knight without fear and without reproach.
Richard Harris Barham

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
Demosthenes

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.
Thomas B. Macaulay

I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.
Kate Smith

Reproach Translations

reproach in Danish is bebrejdelse, dadle
reproach in Dutch is laken, afkeuren, berispen, gispen
reproach in Finnish is moittia
reproach in French is reproche, reprochons, reprochent, gronder
reproach in German is Vorwurf, vorwerfen, Tadel
reproach in Latin is opprobrium, insequor
reproach in Norwegian is dadle
reproach in Portuguese is reprimenda

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