When people reproach us, they only increase their own failings even as they are disclaiming them. From LearnThat.org. [Magdeleine Sable (c. 1599-1678)]
Words of reproach. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He brought reproach upon his family. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The word reproach means scorn, a feeling of derision and disdain. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The Jews to this day call the Christians, in reproach, Cuthaei-Samaritans. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference
She looked at him in reproach so deep that the last vestige of the terror of death was gone from her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Kanaka Surf] Reference
She was like the woman in Scripture whose reproach is taken away, and who becomes a joyful mother of children when all hope is over. From Wordnik.com. [Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago] Reference
I deserve the reproach, which is very just indeed. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
And the reproach is the more bitter because -- and this. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetry Of Robert Browning] Reference
And the fool-Atheift call reproach Upon thy awful Name/. From Wordnik.com. [The Psalms of King David Paraphrased, and Turned Into English Verse, According to the Common ...] Reference
But a reproach is the acting of a mind designing of, and rejoicing in, evil. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
When her truer mind was restored, she knew that the reproach was a foolish one. From Wordnik.com. [Thyrza] Reference
Reiske;) and the reproach is furiously reechoed by the Christians, (Clemens Alex. in. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
They all present an outward showing that is beyond reproach, which is to be expected of gentlemen of their stature. From Wordnik.com. [Tender Rebel]
Such an exhortation was nothing less than a reproach; and such a reproach was a bad return for the gold and the blood which. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5] Reference
I hear thy spirit vain reproach me. From Wordnik.com. [The Lake of Geneva] Reference
` I speak not in reproach, but in gratitude. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 12: The Bishop] Reference
Why am I more irritated at that reproach which is cast on me than at one which is, with equal injustice, cast upon another in my presence?. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler] Reference
To an ingenuous mind reproach is a cutting thing. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
This is the reproach which is cast against the Ionians by the Scythians. From Wordnik.com. [The history of Herodotus — Volume 1] Reference
In the English Version "reproach" will mean Job's calamities, which they. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Psalmist's answer to the foe's "reproach," that his hope was a fallacious one. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Again, we need to remove the reproach which is often brought against us of a lack of deep pity. From Wordnik.com. [The Negro and the White Man] Reference
She had never been accused of not understanding before, and it is a reproach which is hard to bear. From Wordnik.com. [Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago] Reference
I have been disconsolated at receiving from you such a reproach which is absolutely unjustified. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
But against the self-reproach which is the punishment for these years of wavering, I struggle in vain. From Wordnik.com. [The Bride of Dreams] Reference
That intense dislike, which is far from uncommon, for severe reasoning has even made a kind of reproach to. From Wordnik.com. [Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)] Reference
I declare to you that I have been disconsolated at receiving from you such a reproach which is absolutely unjustified. From Wordnik.com. [The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt] Reference
Believers may well overcome the "reproach" (compare Heb 11: 26), seeing that "the Spirit of glory" rests upon them, as upon Him. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Similar cards joined this one in reproach. From Wordnik.com. [Going South - Mexico Of The 1980's] Reference
Self-reproach, according to Orizio, is unknown among ex-tyrants. From Wordnik.com. [Lives Of The Dictators] Reference
It's not that I think my dear child's behavior is beyond reproach. From Wordnik.com. [We’re Bossy—And Proud of It] Reference
Schlesinger was, in some ways, a walking reproach to modern academic historians. From Wordnik.com. [Remembering Arthur Schlesinger Jr.] Reference
He said it with reproach -- with disbelief, almost -- at the breadth of the vision. From Wordnik.com. [Empty Title] Reference
Her industry and punctilio, as well as her political shrewdness, are beyond reproach. From Wordnik.com. [The Monarchy Will Prevail] Reference
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