What's the difference between irreproachable and reproach?

Irreproachable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not reproachable; above reproach; not deserving reproach; blameless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If someone wants to be technically irreproachable, he needs to get together most of the existent structures to have a performant material and as much and efficient staff as possible.
  • (2) Our behaviour has been irreproachable too: we have had only two or three yellow cards in all our games.
  • (3) In a statement, the ministry said the public finances directorate was examining the tax situation of all government members as a matter of "routine", with the aim of "ensuring that the position of every government member is irreproachable".
  • (4) About one fifth of the children shows an irreproachable mouth hygiene.
  • (5) But public understand humility as admirable, listen to the multifaceted strong message.” Last month, Murdoch said Carson was “maybe the one to beat”, calling him “irreproachable on background, achievements, character, vision”.
  • (6) Back in Rome, the agriculture minister, Mario Catania, declared in irreproachably technocratic fashion that his new deputy would "bring value added".
  • (7) After decades of political corruption on both right and left, Sarkozy won the last election promising a France that would be morally "irreproachable".
  • (8) The issue is all the more pressing for Fillon because, despite 35 years in politics including five years as prime minister, he is styling himself as an anti-system candidate, promoting himself as an honest, austere and “irreproachable” antidote to years of corruption scandals on the French right.
  • (9) In a sign of the anger among Mousavi's supporters, they chanted "the president is committing a crime and the supreme leader is supporting him", highly inflammatory language in a regime where the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, is considered irreproachable.
  • (10) When he was elected in 2007, Sarkozy had promised an "irreproachable" France, presenting himself as a leader who would clean up corrupt French politics.
  • (11) "Kate seems to have been selected for her role of princess because she was irreproachable: as painfully thin as anyone could wish, without quirks, without oddities, without the risk of the emergence of character."
  • (12) Early operation, an irreproachable operating tactic (orthopedic table, ventral decubitus, posterior approach), an immediate stable and solid synthesis and a deferred load bearing (beyond 6 months) should reduce the risk of femoral head necrosis to a minimum.
  • (13) Irreproachable on background, achievements, character, vision.
  • (14) To obtain the best results the surgical act must be performed irreproachably and the patient must comply with protection prescriptions.
  • (15) She was excoriated last year for a speech at the British Museum dealing with the media perception of royal women, in which she described Kate Middleton as "selected for her role of princess because she was irreproachable: as painfully thin as anyone could wish, without quirks, without oddities, without the risk of the emergence of character".
  • (16) The newest tupes of mechanical prosthetic valves have been shown to be long-lasting and haemodynamically irreproachable.

Reproach


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace.
  • (v. t.) To attribute blame to; to allege something disgraceful against; to charge with a fault; to censure severely or contemptuously; to upbraid.
  • (v.) The act of reproaching; censure mingled with contempt; contumelious or opprobrious language toward any person; abusive reflections; as, severe reproach.
  • (v.) A cause of blame or censure; shame; disgrace.
  • (v.) An object of blame, censure, scorn, or derision.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We lost to a great team and a great coach, but we want to win the league and we will be back – I have nothing to reproach my players for," he said.
  • (2) This examination leads to eliminate those reproaches because the consumer knows to which he is exposed, being forewarned: -when he is using mineral water at the cure-resort, by the thermal consultant who is watching over him, -when he is using one or the other of the conditioned waters, -either by the medical practictioner, who should give him the contre-indicates; -either by indicating on the label, if not the contre-indicates (like we would hope that they figure on), at least the composition (which now figures within the EEC).
  • (3) Hilary was one of few senior MPs whose expenses claims were totally beyond reproach – no surprise there.
  • (4) Prince Charles is being reproached again for having too many views on his future kingdom.
  • (5) The doctor tells it like it is, without reproach, but setting down the facts firmly.
  • (6) Each session deals with one of the following themes: "reproach & refusal", "request & emotions" and "relapse".
  • (7) First, normal psychological experience, with feelings of guilt, reproach, stability, indifference; deeper awareness is suppressed with the aid of forms of defense such as scientific objectivism, positivism, and reductionism.
  • (8) He told parliament on Tuesday that the public were sick of reproaches and insults.
  • (9) Along the way we invent creative ways to kill each other while trapped and make a pact that if one of us gets a flight out they are allowed to go without the other with no reproach and the other one will make friends with a volleyball.
  • (10) China is exercising the right of self-preservation that every country enjoys according to international law, which is beyond reproach,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters in Beijing.
  • (11) Just the fact of its being there at all took my breath away - a discordant modernist appendage to the gilded baroque former courthouse which is the entrance to the museum, and thus a symbolic reproach to bürgerlich Berlin itself.
  • (12) The MPs' report said today: "We conclude that Mr Andrew MacKay breached the rules relating to second home allowances by wrongly designating his home in Bromsgrove as his main home for ACA purposes and because his claims against ACA for his London home were not beyond reproach.
  • (13) The most striking observations were the relative paucity of depressed mood, self-reproach, and suicidal ideation in patients with major depression.
  • (14) The integrity of the commissioner of police must be beyond reproach.
  • (15) Mossack Fonseca has always insisted that it acts “beyond reproach” and that, in 40 years, it has “never been accused or charged in connection with criminal wrongdoing”.
  • (16) In cardiac surgery mainly new neurological deficits are content of malpractice reproach; in vascular surgery artery injuries and surgical procedures to correct varicose veins are most often involved.
  • (17) The prime minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, had earlier insisted MPs must be “beyond reproach” regarding their financial activities.
  • (18) Furthermore, we found out that the life events of the "patients grown up during the postwar period" were limited to the personal interests and that they rarely suffered from self-reproach or feeling of guilt.
  • (19) The public admission by the man who led France's fight against tax evasion that he secretly defrauded the taxman and was "caught in a spiral of lies" is a huge embarrassment for Hollande, who promised that his government would be beyond reproach after the corruption allegations that dogged previous French administrations.
  • (20) At the start of this month, the archbishop of Canterbury won near universal praise for his public reproach of the Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, during a trip to Harare.

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