reproach
verb (used with object)
to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
was reproaching
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past progressiveof reproach.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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It appeared clear to Elder that the presidential candidate was reproaching the journalist out for waffling on an important story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2021
Soon she was reproaching him for paying too much attention to other women, and writing angry letters to feminine friends she suspected of trying to steal him from her.
From Time Magazine Archive
His daughter Barbara was reproaching him for writing ridiculous letters to the newspapers.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
She was reproaching herself for having sent the letter.
From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by William Stearns Davis
She was reproaching him now for his fickleness in having ventured to set his heart upon another woman, when she herself had been so much worse than fickle,—so profoundly false!
From Phineas Finn The Irish Member by Anthony Trollope
