beyond reproach

Idioms

Blameless, faultless, as in Jean's conduct at school is beyond reproach. The phrase employs the verb to reproach in the sense of “censure or rebuke,” a usage dating from the early 1500s.

Example Sentences

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Allies of Mahmood also said that she considers the Supreme Court's judgement on the issue of trans rights to be "beyond reproach".

From BBC • Oct. 14, 2025

Simpson was led by the public's perception, or his interpretation of it, that enough ubiquity and money places a person beyond reproach.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2024

He has repeatedly denied this, and insisted that the process be transparent and beyond reproach.

From Reuters • Jun. 8, 2023

She was protected by her impregnable certainty that whatever she did was utterly beyond reproach.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2023

All of a sudden I found myself able to see him as the world saw him, as I myself had seen him when I first met him—cool, well-mannered, rich, absolutely beyond reproach.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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