Antonyms 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.

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

   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

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1. reproachverb

   Antonyms:
   laud, praise, approve, commend

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

Matched Categories

1. • Accuse
   • Rebuke

Princeton's WordNetRate this antonym:5.0 / 1 vote

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

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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

How to use reproach in a sentence?

1. Reality TV star Josh Duggar:

   I brought hurt and a reproach to my family, close friends and the fans of our show with my actions that happened when I was 14-15 years old, and now I have re-broken their trust.

2. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde:

   There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

3. Demosthenes:

   He who receives a favour must retain a recollection of it for all time to come; but he who confers should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid and ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred on him, and to talk of it, is little different from a reproach.

4. Joy Behar:

   So what you have here are 50 senators who are going to vote against this woman, who is above reproach, the first Black woman in that position. That is going to be on their record, and that’s why they’re asking these dumb questions.

5. Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov:

   I will defend the position for the construction of Nord Stream II and (a) gas hub in Bulgaria - it is advantageous for the country and nobody can reproach me for that.

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