Synonyms for reproach
rɪˈproʊtʃre·proach

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1. reproachverb

   To criticize or rebuke someone.

   Synonyms:
   blame, dishonor, rebuke, disgrace, upbraid

2. reproachverb

   To disgrace, or bring shame upon someone.

   Synonyms:
   rebuke, upbraid, blame, dishonor, disgrace

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.3 / 3 votes

1. reproach

   Abuse covers all unreasonable or improper use or treatment by word or act. A tenant does not abuse rented property by "reasonable wear," though that may damage the property and injure its sale; he may abuse it by needless defacement or neglect. It is possible to abuse a man without harming him, as when the criminal vituperates the judge; or to harm a man without abusing him, as when the witness tells the truth about the criminal. Defame, malign, rail at, revile, slander, vilify, and vituperate are used always in a bad sense. One may be justly reproached. To impose on or to victimize one is to injure him by abusing his confidence. To persecute one is to ill-treat him for opinion's sake, commonly for religious belief; to oppress is generally for political or pecuniary motives. "Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy," Deut. xxiv, 14. Misemploy, misuse, and pervert are commonly applied to objects rather than to persons. A dissolute youth misemploys his time, misuses his money and opportunities, harms his associates, perverts his talents, wrongs his parents, ruins himself, abuses every good gift of God.

   Synonyms:
   abuse, aggrieve, damage, defame, defile, disparage, harm, ill-treat, ill-use, impose on, impose upon, injure, malign, maltreat, misemploy, misuse, molest, oppress, persecute, pervert, prostitute, rail at, ravish, revile, ruin, slander, victimize, vilify, violate, vituperate, wrong

   Antonyms:
   applaud, benefit, care for, cherish, conserve, consider, eulogize, extol, favor, laud, panegyrize, praise, protect, regard, respect, shield, sustain, tend, uphold, vindicate

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1. reproachverb

   Synonyms:
   blame, censure, taunt, rebuke, upbraid, reprobate, reprove

   Antonyms:
   laud, praise, approve, commend

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1. reproachnoun

   a mild rebuke or criticism

   "words of reproach"

2. reproachverb

   disgrace or shame

   "he brought reproach upon his family"

3. reproach, upbraidverb

   express criticism towards

   "The president reproached the general for his irresponsible behavior"

   Synonyms:
   upbraid

Matched Categories

1. • Accuse
   • Rebuke

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1. reproachverb

   Synonyms:
   censure, blame, reprove, reprehend, REPRIMAND, upbraid

2. reproachverb

   Synonyms:
   revile, vilify, defame, asperse, abuse, speak ill of

3. reproachnoun

   Synonyms:
   censure, reproof, disapprobation, disapproval, blame, invective, upbraiding, condemnation, reprobation, remonstrance, reprehension, expostulation, rebuke, reprimand, railing, contumely

4. reproachnoun

   Synonyms:
   dishonor, disgrace, shame, obloquy, opprobrium, odium, scandal, ignominy, infamy, abasement, indignity

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1. reproachnoun

   Synonyms:
   censure, scurrility, contumely, invective, odium, obloquy, shame, disgrace

2. reproachverb

   Synonyms:
   censure, upbraid, rebuke, reprimand, revile, chide, vilify

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "reproach":

   blame, rebuke, censor, accusation, accuse, criticism, criticise, censure

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1. Joseph Addison:

   It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.

2. Aldous Huxley:

   The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

3. Mitch McConnell:

   The FEC was created back in 1974 in the wake of Watergate. That was a period during which our Democratic colleagues had overwhelming majorities in the House and Senate, they could have crafted the FEC any way they chose to. But they realized that it ought to be evenly split between Republicans and Democrats. It was broad bipartisan understanding that the new panel needed to be beyond reproach. That's why it was built with an even-numbered membership.

4. Erica Jong:

   There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness -- her selfishness, in short -- is a reproach to the American way of life.

5. Hudson Taylor:

   I think that sometimes when people The Trevor Project as if they are, you know, that their allyship is above reproach, that is disingenuous.