2. Adjective. (obsolete) Opprobrious; scurrilous; reproachful; abusive. ¹
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Definition of Reproachable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reproachable
Literary usage of Reproachable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies of the Man Christ Jesus by Robert Elliott Speer (1896)
"And Judas would have seen anything reproachable. He had borne the bag; any
pecuniary weakness—we shudder at the thought—would have been known to him. ..."
2. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Time of Dean Swift by Theophilus Cibber, Robert Shiels, Thomas Coxeter (1753)
"... vanity : Than lach a conduct nothing, can be more reproachable. ' Not long
after this adventure, ..."
3. The biblical museum by James Comper Gray (1872)
"Faultlessly, for —(1) The Gospel can be made a reproachable thing ; (2) Men can
make themselves reproachable by their treatment of it. 2. Perseveringly. II. ..."
4. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"reproachable, a. Censurable, reprehensible, blamable. Reproachful, a. I.
Opprobrious, scurrilous, abusive, railing, scolding, upbraiding, vituperative, ..."
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