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Definition of Reproachful
1. Adjective. Expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective.
Similar to: Unfavorable, Unfavourable
Derivative terms: Admonish
Definition of Reproachful
1. a. Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive.
Definition of Reproachful
1. Adjective. Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive. ¹
2. Adjective. Occasioning or deserving reproach; shameful; base; as, a reproachful life. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reproachful
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Reproachful
1. 1. Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive. "The reproachful speeches . . . That he hath breathed in my dishonor here." (Shak) 2. Occasioning or deserving reproach; shameful; base; as, a reproachful life. Synonym: Opprobrious, contumelious, abusive, offensive, insulting, contemptuous, scornful, insolent, scurrilous, disreputable, discreditable, dishonorable, shameful, disgraceful, scandalous, base, vile, infamous. Reproach"fully, Reproach"fulness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reproachful
Literary usage of Reproachful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1839)
"Stephen, 4 in his examination, sentence, and death had no such reproachful word
4 given him, as Sirrah or Knave, Acts vi. & vii. chap. ..."
2. The Innocent Vindicated from the Falshoods & Slanders of Certain by Daniel Leeds (1695)
"/»да reproachful hii Life * * •«Я ". l Ir ui •v., ... call a man meke^ and* of
a reproachful ^ Li;ct and leave it to others to ..."
3. A Theological Dictionary, Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms: A by Charles Buck (1829)
"Pn- ! tha EVIL SPEAKING, the using language either reproachful or untrue respecting
others, and thereby injuring them. It is an express command of Scripture ..."
4. A Theological Dictionary, Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms: A by Charles Buck (1815)
"... reproachful or abusive language, against whomsoever it be vented, !t is in
scripture applied to reproaches not limed against God only but man also, Rem, ..."
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