/ English Dictionary

REPROACHFULLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a reproving or reproachful manner

Example:

she spoke to him reprovingly

Synonyms:

reproachfully; reprovingly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

reproachful (expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective)

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 Context examples: 

If I tacitly checked this playfulness, and persisted, she would look so scared and disconsolate, as she became more and more bewildered, that the remembrance of her natural gaiety when I first strayed into her path, and of her being my child-wife, would come reproachfully upon me; and I would lay the pencil down, and call for the guitar.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I took him into the pantry where he looked a little reproachfully at the Finn. Together we scrutinized the twelve lemon cakes from the delicatessen shop.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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