Example Sentences

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Hae-mi is a dreamer and an emotional whirlwind, whose flirty, spirited manner can suddenly veer into reproachfulness, even contempt.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2018

I was aware of a good girl’s reproachfulness and disdain, along with a perceptible, physical empathy.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Miss Earle looked at him with serene composure, and yet with a touch of reproachfulness in her glance.

From In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories by Barr, Robert

Her young gaze was full of an unconscious reproachfulness.

From V. V.'s Eyes by Harrison, Henry Sydnor

“I had not forgotten that,” cried Katerina Ivanovna, coming to a sudden standstill, “and why are you so antagonistic at such a moment?” she added, with warm and bitter reproachfulness.

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor