All reproach synonyms
reΒ·proach
R r verb reproach
- blow off β If you blow something off, you ignore it or choose not to deal with it.
- excoriate β Censure or criticize severely.
- kick up a fuss β (Idiomatic) To show annoyance, or to complain loudly about something, often when it is of little importance in reality.
- jawbone β a bone of either jaw; a maxilla or mandible.
- dis-favored β unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- be-little β to regard or portray as less impressive or important than appearances indicate; depreciate; disparage.
- admonish β If you admonish someone, you tell them very seriously that they have done something wrong.
- carp β A carp is a kind of fish that lives in lakes and rivers.
- charge β If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.
- bad mouth β Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
- lay down the law β the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision.
- animadvert β to comment with strong criticism (upon); make censorious remarks (about)
- blistered β a thin vesicle on the skin, containing watery matter or serum, as from a burn or other injury.
- disciplining β Present participle of discipline.
- denunciate β to condemn; denounce
- blow the whistle on β to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
- groused β to grumble; complain: I've never met anyone who grouses so much about his work.
- dump on β to drop or let fall in a mass; fling down or drop heavily or suddenly: Dump the topsoil here.
- dooming β fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune: In exile and poverty, he met his doom.
- disciplined β having or exhibiting discipline; rigorous: paintings characterized by a disciplined technique.
- objurgate β to reproach or denounce vehemently; upbraid harshly; berate sharply.
- denounce β If you denounce a person or an action, you criticize them severely and publicly because you feel strongly that they are wrong or evil.
- lay to β to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- fussed β an excessive display of anxious attention or activity; needless or useless bustle: They made a fuss over the new baby.
- inveigh β to protest strongly or attack vehemently with words; rail (usually followed by against): to inveigh against isolationism.
- call on the carpet β (chiefly US) To reprimand; to censure severely or angrily.
- beefing β the flesh of a cow, steer, or bull raised and killed for its meat.
- cut to the quick β done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
- give a hard time β a period of difficulties or hardship.
- lesson β a section into which a course of study is divided, especially a single, continuous session of formal instruction in a subject: The manual was broken down into 50 lessons.
noun reproach
- brickbat β Brickbats are very critical or insulting remarks which are made in public about someone or something.
- disapproval β the act or state of disapproving; a condemnatory feeling, look, or utterance; censure: stern disapproval.
- quinine β a white, bitter, slightly water-soluble alkaloid, C 2 0 H 2 4 N 2 O 2 , having needlelike crystals, obtained from cinchona bark: used in medicine chiefly in the treatment of resistant forms of malaria.
- imputation β the act of imputing.
- opprobrium β the disgrace or the reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful; infamy.
- indignity β an injury to a person's dignity; slighting or contemptuous treatment; humiliating affront, insult, or injury.
- inculpation β to charge with fault; blame; accuse.
- disgrace β the loss of respect, honor, or esteem; ignominy; shame: the disgrace of criminals.
- chiding β to express disapproval of; scold; reproach: The principal chided the children for their thoughtless pranks.
- hosing β an act or instance of being taken advantage of or cheated.
- disparagement β the act of disparaging.
- invective β vehement or violent denunciation, censure, or reproach.
- hard times β a period of difficulties or hardship.
- ill fame β bad reputation, especially in sexual matters.
- objurgation β to reproach or denounce vehemently; upbraid harshly; berate sharply.
- earful β an outpouring of oral information or advice, especially when given without solicitation.
- cc β You use cc when referring to the volume or capacity of something such as the size of a car engine. cc is an abbreviation for 'cubic centimetres'.
- criticism β the analysis or evaluation of a work of art, literature, etc
- bad name β Used other than as an idiom: see bad,β name.
- ccs β carbon capture and storage