How to Use "reproach" with Example Sentences
- 1. If macmillan has escaped reproach , it is not because he succeeded , but because the task was so hopeless .
- 2. The price of failure , the conservative prime minister said , would be that " our successors will reproach us as we reproach the victorians for complacency about slums and ugliness . "
- 3. Similarly , if you are not the godmother at the baptism of one of your best friend 's children , it is probably wrong to give heirloom-style gifts or do anything that could be construed as a reproach .
- 4. He deals with the dark side of india , above all the poverty , which is a reproach to a state and politicians who seem to cut down the needy in the " friendly fire " of bullying , incompetent and corrupt government action .