(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.
Unimpeachable
Definition:
(a.) Not impeachable; not to be called in question; exempt from liability to accusation; free from stain, guilt, or fault; irreproachable; blameless; as, an unimpeachable reputation; unimpeachable testimony.
Example Sentences:
(1) Saleh Abdeslam may be a terrorist, but his trial must be unimpeachable | Mary Dejevsky Read more He is fighting extradition to France, but could be surrendered to Paris under the terms of a European arrest warrant.
(2) They were of questionable vintage but against a backdrop of spongy-white plaster and dark wood beams, their buccaneering credentials appeared unimpeachable.
(3) I’ve never done anything extraordinary,” says Finch in one of several brazen acts of self-exposition, “I think that’s why I play video games, ’cos they’re more interesting than my real life.” The words ring especially hollow when spoken by Gervais, whose limited emotional range and rising celebrity profile have transformed him into a sort of modern-day Hugh Grant (stay with me) whose audience appeal is apparently so unimpeachable that his flat presence – much less his incongruous Englishness – is considered no obstacle.
(4) U Htin Kyaw, just nominated by the NLD for president, is a stellar choice, well-respected, unimpeachable integrity, and a very nice man,” tweeted Thant Myint-U, a historian and the grandson of the former UN secretary general U Thant.
(5) He has somehow managed to seem wildly out of step with prevalent trends, even as his classic albums became an unimpeachable touchstone for a variety of new artists.
(6) Eyebrows were raised when Sisi decided to allow Islamists to enter the Egyptian military's officer training academy — when it had always insisted before that cadets were unimpeachably apolitical.
(7) Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps, Ernest Bevin – these were political giants, men of unimpeachable integrity and manifestly driven by a high sense of duty.
(8) The OBR, headed by Sir Alan Budd – a top-class economist with an unimpeachable record of public service – is designed to prevent chancellors from tweaking Treasury forecasts in order to justify tax and spending decisions.
(9) He said he would create a method of verification by an "unimpeachable, impartial" individual or body that would certify that the new press regulator was compliant with Leveson in all respects.
(10) First up is his proposal to sell advertising space to corporations , which wouldn't in any way compromise the impartiality and unimpeachable integrity of Hertfordshire constabulary.
(11) Steven Spielberg's movie about Lincoln's constitutional dark night of the soul in the civil war – a choice to end slavery or end the bloodshed – leads the field with 12 Oscar nominations and offers Academy voters something reassuringly mainstream and essentially, unimpeachably patriotic.
(12) They may even oppose Corbyn on the unimpeachably anti-Tory grounds that he is guaranteeing a decade of Tory rule.
(13) Mr Heydon’s conduct has been unimpeachable,” Brandis told Sky News on Sunday.
(14) Sade, for instance, is relentlessly obscene, while Sacher-Masoch is unimpeachable.
(15) Not one Liberal Democrat MP has sought to follow David Davis and become an unimpeachable defender of civil liberties.
(16) In times of national crises,” Hetherington and Nelson wrote , “Americans rally to the president as the anthropomorphic symbol of national unity – a kind of living flag.” In some ways, our national nightmare would be a Trump dream: a period where his acclaim is absolute and unimpeachable.
(17) Leading the BBC – a job that mixes business with politics like no other – requires unimpeachable credentials, so Fairhead's candidature put her immediately under scrutiny.
(18) Rolling Stone described her new studio album, Soldier of Love, as "unimpeachably excellent" while Billboard said: "It's been 10 years since Sade released an album, but be forewarned – the giant has awoken."
(19) But his lesson, that if you wish to promote public austerity then the message comes best from someone of unimpeachable personal frugality, has been lost on David Cameron.
(20) The below is according to Marca, so must, of course, be of unimpeachable truth.