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. 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.

2. Demosthenes:

   He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.

3. Epictetus, Enchiridion:

   It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself.

4. Joe Manchin:

   I think everyone agrees that Robert Mueller is a straight shooter and beyond reproach. Robert Mueller's not shooting anybody's bullets for any particular reason or political agenda, i would like to think William Barr is doing the same. And if those two are in conflict, I will make my own decision from there.

5. Cardinal Lacroix:

   I hear that sometimes, too, i think Pope Francis is conservative in the right way. You have to be conservative enough to come back to what is the foundation: that's the Gospel. You cannot reproach Pope Francis of not living the Gospel, or not preaching the truth of the Gospel.

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