reprove
verb (used with object)
to criticize or correct, especially gently.
reproves
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present tense formof reprove (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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“I could do without becoming known as the man who has a hugger for a son,” he reproves when Cal tries to embrace him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Jack’s shoulders are slumped forward, his arms crossed, while John’s maternal aunt Annie reproves him with an extended finger.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2018
He reproves us for faults which would not be faults if he could talk to his neighbors in Vermont, to his fellow writers, his fellow men.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a club a testy gentleman behind whose favorite armchair a bomb has just torn a gaping hole in floor and ceiling reproves an anxious flunkey: "I'm perfectly aware of that."
From Time Magazine Archive
Is this to conform to the spirit of religion? is it not, on the contrary, to engage one's self in that pretended wisdom, that futile science it so much reproves?
From L'Histoire Des Vaudois From Authentic Details of the Valdenses by al.
