noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a sharp reproof
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A similar distinction may be made between praise and reproof on the one hand and credit and blame on the other.
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Her voice was balanced precisely between reproof and mild shock.
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No reason for the reproof is suggested.
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Shame on shame, and the sight of the awful mixture of distress and reproof in his parents' faces.
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The reproof of Beatrice is not, I conceive, as remote as it might seem from our own world.
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The reproof , justified or not, is significant.
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There had been something of a reproof in that letter, even though no word of it had been written openly.
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When Gebrec approached, he took him by the arm and murmured something which Melissa took to be a mild reproof .