reprove formal

This was the first time he had ever reproved me.

There's your sort to set up for reproving other people!

I kind of reproved father for saying so, you remember, but it is true.

You will not want to reprove any children for talking during your speech.

He shook his head at me, reproving, that I had not even tried.

I doubt that anyone could reprove me for taking in the child.

The others in the group were giving him reproving looks, but he did not catch them.

He expected no answer and a dull one would have been reproved.

"I see and hear just fine," his mother reproved him.

"I told you you'd do better with me than her," she reproved.

"I do, but they're up higher than where you're looking," she reproved, sitting across the table from him.

Now, however, he looked straight into her face, and his tone was reproving.

Only a second later he reproved himself for the stupidity of the question.

Why should I feel reproved when a busy one enters the room?

I had been on the point of running forward to interfere, but stood back at that, reproved.

For this he was reproved and the coal removed from him.

However, over time, many of these results have been reproved using only elementary techniques.

Gently, he reproved her for having gone against his wishes.

He couldn't reprove a man with a star on each shoulder.

"You are very wrong in that," she reproved him gently.

He'll be very angry now that Gregory has reproved him in front of you.

He could not bring himself to reprove her for choosing the word forgive.

No one would have reproved him for making either of the princesses his own.

"You think entirely in material terms, young man," he reproved.

But he had to reprove himself: it was a selfish prayer.