reprovingly

[ri-proov-ing-lee]

adverb

1. in a way that reproves, chides, or rebukes.

Example Sentences

“You have been running, Jo. How could you? When will you stop such romping ways?” said Meg reprovingly, as she settled her cuffs and smoothed her hair, with which the wind had taken liberties.

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The Abbot shook his head reprovingly as Winifred lowered the lamp flame and drew the curtains.

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The trouble with Picasso, Julian Barnes wrote, reprovingly, in his essay collection, “Keeping an Eye Open,” is that he didn’t make paintings — he made Picassos.

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Raoni wagged his finger reprovingly, a sign for half a dozen Kayapó warriors to push the intruders back to their seats.

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“It’s like a gargoyle with weird green eyes that pulls on my hair or nibbles my ear”—he jerked his head away and smiled reprovingly at the phantasm.

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