1. reproof - Noun
2. reproof - Verb
Refutation; confutation; contradiction.
An expression of blame or censure; especially, blame expressed to the face; censure for a fault; chiding; reproach.
Source: Webster's dictionaryReproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye. Samuel Lover
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. Walter Savage Landor
Reproof is a medicine like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered it will do harm instead of good. James Burgh
Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof. Erich von Stroheim
They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him. Jack Cade
By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof. French Proverb