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How to use reproof in a sentence

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By the faintly chagrined expression on his face, Darius could very safely assume that Asgard had received a similar reproof.
She hit him on the shoulder lightly in reproof before laughing slightly before she realized that hurt her side even more.
Wendy put her arms akimbo and tapped a foot, sending him a look of reproof.
You may, possibly, seduce their wives, embezzle their money, and steal their parking space, without so much as a murmur of reproof.
Despite their spotty record, the military foundations and other army-connected companies are generally above reproof.
A statue showing Medea about to slaughter her children symbolizes the reproof of infanticide. In this case, death is clearly shown as a contained force, even a holy force.
She stood looking at me, arms crossed as if waiting for a reproof.
This caused a hue and cry from conservatives, and a thundering reproof from the leader.
The responses of writers and scholars to his work have varied, journalists tending towards praise and even adulation, academic linguists towards caution and even reproof.
To offer thanks to one who had done well, or a reproof, either in anger or gentle regret, to one who had not.
One eye cocked in gentle reproof, Don Mario sipped the wine.
Keira, however, behaved as a model daughter, leaving no room for reproof.
She could not bear to witness the reproof in her parents' eyes.
At the same time it was said of him that his gentleness was such that anyone who came to speak to him, even for reproof, went away happier.
On the contrary most of the time, the result of the work is rewarded by a sanction or a reproof.
There is no reproof, no penalty to this House for not doing the reviews, so we continue on this way.
If this is a reproof, given the complexity of the whole issue, then it must apply to donor and recipient countries alike.
The color separations will be corrected and reproof until this is achieved.
Hilary and other Gallicans have been strengthened by the example of Irenaeus, and by his faithful words of reproof and exhortation, to resist Rome, even down to our own times.
I closed the door and let out a sigh of relief mixed with reproof.
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He hated show and foppery, and a weakness in that direction often got reproof.
The luxury of such a reproof was too dear to Mrs. Neff's unwithered heart to be neglected.
In it was all the imperativeness of reproof and command and all the solicitous insistence of love.
The physician said a little in the way of reproof and admonition, and left me.
In the ante-Nicene period only ecclesiastical penalties, such as reproof, deposition or excommunication, could be imposed.
Hence also the reproof of our own mode of life when we attempt to reprove others.
It was no time for gentlemanly reproof, so I turned round and felled him like an ox.
If you think well to carry this as you may, the doubleness of the benefit defends the deceit from reproof.
Jay, angered at the injustice of a reproof which belonged more especially to him, drew up an exculpatory statement.
Harry did not cease for my reproof, but his laugh was inward and subterraneous.
He was ten miles down the river before he remembered that the reproof he had framed for the girl had been undelivered.
That was said not vainly or presumptuously, but in reproof of sycophantic courtiers.
And now the little school is ever present with us, ours still for counsel or reproof.
He started under that reproof like a fiery stallion under the spur.
John Grueby,' said the long-winded gentleman, in a tone of mild reproof, 'his lordship said Amen.
His voice suggested sympathetic reproof but at the same time indicated that a few harrowing details would not be unacceptable.
He smiled at her kindly and tolerantly, yet with a gentle reproof.
She stood erect, with an expression of cold distaste for reproof of any sort.
But the stillness upon her face bore to me the shadow of a reproof.
At this reproof Josef hastened to load the table with bottles.
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