reprove
verb (used with object)
to criticize or correct, especially gently.
have reproved
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present perfectof reprove.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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The teacher in the Red Schoolhouse up the road would have reproved him for this, but the children thought whatever the Toyman said was all right.
From Seven O'Clock Stories by Robert Gordon Anderson
There were many such men who, if they had been able to do so, would have reproved novelties and denounced perverted tradition.
From Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" by Hilaire Belloc
"You have reproved me twice to-night, youngster; first for being a bully, now for doubting you."
From Princess Maritza by Percy James Brebner
I should have reproved you seriously if you had done anything so foolish.
From Pages from a Journal with Other Papers by Mark Rutherford
Her eyelids drooped as she curtsied, and when she looked up again, in a way that seemed humility itself, to have reproved her would have appeared downright cruelty.'
From Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever
