reproach
verb (used with object)
to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
had reproached
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past perfectof reproach.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Day after day, year after year, the blank legal pad had reproached him with its fine lines.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 28, 2013
They note that Bush has a history of nurturing plans in secrecy and suddenly springing them, to the consternation of critics who had reproached him for indecision and timidity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since then, she had reproached him afresh whenever she caught him looking at it.
From Rope by Holworthy Hall
“He thinks himself many removes too good for me, I can tell you,” laughed Gerard, remembering the lofty contempt with which Harry had reproached him for “turning counter-jumper,” as he was pleased to put it.
From The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley by Bertram Mitford
Similarly Mrs. Dale had reproached him, for she had seen and heard of his work.
From The "Genius" by Theodore Dreiser
