reproachful

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
reproachful
    adj 1: expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective
           [syn: {admonitory}, {admonishing}, {reproachful},
           {reproving}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Reproachful \Re*proach"ful\ (-f?l), a.
   1. Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding;
      opprobrious; abusive.
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            The reproachful speeches . . .
            That he hath breathed in my dishonor here. --Shak.
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   2. Occasioning or deserving reproach; shameful; base; as, a
      reproachful life.
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   Syn: Opprobrious; contumelious; abusive; offensive;
        insulting; contemptuous; scornful; insolent; scurrilous;
        disreputable; discreditable; dishonorable; shameful;
        disgraceful; scandalous; base; vile; infamous.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Re*proach"ful*ly} (r?-pr?ch"f?l-l?),
        adv. -- {Re*proach"ful*ness}, n.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "reproachful":
      abusive, admonitory, blackening, blameful, censorious,
      condemnatory, contemptuous, critical, damnatory, denunciatory,
      deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, derisive, disapproving,
      disparaging, execrating, execrative, execratory, hypercritical,
      invective, inveighing, judgmental, objurgatory, priggish,
      reprobative, reviling, ridiculing, scoffing, scolding, upbraiding,
      vilifying, vituperative

    

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