reproach
verb (used with object)
to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
reproached
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past participleof reproach.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof reproach.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
reproachverb (used with object)to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
Example Sentences
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When Vernice tries to persuade Annie to aim higher, she is reproached by her friend: “Stop acting like me and you knit with the same needles.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
Welsh Labour MP Steve Witherden has apologised after being reproached for drinking milk from a carton in the House of Commons last week.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2024
I reproached him for telling people that the medical and scientific profession was lying to them while he, a proven fraud, was not.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 29, 2023
"Everyone reproached us for having a quantity of money tied up in a system where we could not decide anything," said a source close to Renault.
From Reuters ● Feb. 6, 2023
“And in his last breath reproached me for stooping to a boor!”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
