reprove

How To Use reprove In A Sentence

• The teacher gently reproved the boys for not paying attention.
• Growing up bilingual in English and German, Hobsbawm picked up three or four other languages along the way (he reproves monoglot historians for their provincialism).
• I have thought it, for example, not humane to variegate the text of an Anthology with despairing obeli: and occasionally I have covered up an indubitable lacuna by artifices which I trust may pass undetected by the general reader and unreproved by the charitable critic. Preface
• The benevolent man reproved the keeper for what he called harsh words. Friends and Neighbors
• Poor stiff-necked, lonely, "hankering" Sam! to be so harshly reproved for his harmlessly sociable intents. Sabbath in Puritan New England
• The owners of one Goff house reproved gossiping neighbours by posting a sign, ‘We don't like your house either’.
• Learn to do good ; Seek justice, Reprove the ruthless , Defend the orphan, Plead for the widow.
• I suppose I deserve that you should reprove my shortcomings.
• Therefore I do not doubt that he feignedly reproved his son, from a desire to appease contention. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
• Not only the children of Israel, that had revolted from the temple, but the children of Judah too, that still adhered to it -- not only the common people, the men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, but those that should have reproved and restrained sin in others were themselves ringleaders in it, their kings and princes, their priests and prophets. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)