What is another word for reproach?

Synonyms for reproach
rɪˈproʊtʃre·proach

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Wiktionary0.0 / 0 votes

  1. reproachverb

    To criticize or rebuke someone.

    Synonyms:
    blame, dishonor, rebuke, disgrace, upbraid

  2. reproachverb

    To disgrace, or bring shame upon someone.

    Synonyms:
    rebuke, upbraid, blame, dishonor, disgrace

English Synonyms and Antonyms3.3 / 3 votes

  1. reproach

    Abuse covers all unreasonable or improper use or treatment by word or act. A tenant does not abuse rented property by "reasonable wear," though that may damage the property and injure its sale; he may abuse it by needless defacement or neglect. It is possible to abuse a man without harming him, as when the criminal vituperates the judge; or to harm a man without abusing him, as when the witness tells the truth about the criminal. Defame, malign, rail at, revile, slander, vilify, and vituperate are used always in a bad sense. One may be justly reproached. To impose on or to victimize one is to injure him by abusing his confidence. To persecute one is to ill-treat him for opinion's sake, commonly for religious belief; to oppress is generally for political or pecuniary motives. "Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy," Deut. xxiv, 14. Misemploy, misuse, and pervert are commonly applied to objects rather than to persons. A dissolute youth misemploys his time, misuses his money and opportunities, harms his associates, perverts his talents, wrongs his parents, ruins himself, abuses every good gift of God.

    Synonyms:
    abuse, aggrieve, damage, defame, defile, disparage, harm, ill-treat, ill-use, impose on, impose upon, injure, malign, maltreat, misemploy, misuse, molest, oppress, persecute, pervert, prostitute, rail at, ravish, revile, ruin, slander, victimize, vilify, violate, vituperate, wrong

    Antonyms:
    applaud, benefit, care for, cherish, conserve, consider, eulogize, extol, favor, laud, panegyrize, praise, protect, regard, respect, shield, sustain, tend, uphold, vindicate

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. reproachverb

    Synonyms:
    blame, censure, taunt, rebuke, upbraid, reprobate, reprove

    Antonyms:
    laud, praise, approve, commend

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  1. reproachnoun

    a mild rebuke or criticism

    "words of reproach"

  2. reproachverb

    disgrace or shame

    "he brought reproach upon his family"

  3. reproach, upbraidverb

    express criticism towards

    "The president reproached the general for his irresponsible behavior"

    Synonyms:
    upbraid

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Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. reproachnoun

    Synonyms:
    censure, scurrility, contumely, invective, odium, obloquy, shame, disgrace

  2. reproachverb

    Synonyms:
    censure, upbraid, rebuke, reprimand, revile, chide, vilify

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "reproach":

    blame, rebuke, censor, accusation, accuse, criticism, criticise, censure

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How to use reproach in a sentence?

  1. Oscar Wilde:

    There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

  2. George Will:

    The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others -- this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples.

  3. Joy Behar:

    So what you have here are 50 senators who are going to vote against this woman, who is above reproach, the first Black woman in that position. That is going to be on their record, and that’s why they’re asking these dumb questions.

  4. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde:

    There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

  5. Erica Jong:

    There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness -- her selfishness, in short -- is a reproach to the American way of life.


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