Definition of "reproachful" [re•proach•ful]

• Expressing reproach or blame. (adjective)

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• ""So," said my grandmother to my grandfather, in reproachful tones, "you 've gone and shut the calf up from its mother.""
• "I guess it was the kind of look you would call reproachful."
• "For what thou callest bitter and reproachful, that is my portion, if I cause thee to be slain who hast shared my toils."