reproach
verb (used with object)
to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
has reproached
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present perfectof reproach (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Novelist William Styron has reproached Kuznetsov for not remaining silent after his defection.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Kugler has reproached us for our carelessness.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
He regretted the situation which for my sake He had quitted; and in moments when Despair possessed his mind, has reproached me with having made him the Companion of want and wretchedness!
From The Monk; a romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis
Often enough that last look of yours has reproached me.
From In the Year of Jubilee by George Gissing
France has reproached her with abandoning Napoleon, and still more perhaps for having given two obscure successors to the most famous man of modern times.
From The Happy Days of the Empress Marie Louise by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand
