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[syn: admonitory, admonishing, reproachful, reproving]
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
reproachful
adj 1: expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective
[syn: admonitory, admonishing, reproachful,
reproving]
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