reproach

Speech parts

1. reproach - Noun

2. reproach - Verb

Meaning

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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Anyone who considers himself guilty before God and repents must believe that the reproach and contempt of others towards him is just and to be endured. Gregory Palamas

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 Babington Macaulay

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

You reproach your daughter, but you mean your daughter-in-law. Yiddish Proverb

The sting of a reproach is the truth of it. English Proverb

Every reproach against an accused man is contemptible. Latin Proverb

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