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
When she had reproached him for not leading a life in conformity with his faith, he had been more offended by this than by anything else.
From The Patriot Piccolo Mondo Antico by Antonio Fogazzaro
And I had said something in praise of the little girl to her face, and Fulton had reproached me a little for doing so.
From We Three by Henry Hutt
He could not have behaved worse though I had played the bully with him, and had reproached him with his Christianity.
From Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by John Henry Newman
