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Reproving Synonyms

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Take to task
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. blaming
  2. lambasting
  3. censuring
  4. upbraiding
  5. rebuking
  6. scolding
  7. reproaching
  8. admonishing
  9. reprimanding
  10. shaming
  11. chiding
  12. reprobating
  13. taxing
  14. chastising
  15. refuting
  16. rebuffing
  17. disproving
  18. castigating
  19. criticizing
  20. condemning
  21. rapping
  22. berating
Expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. admonitory
  2. admonishing
  3. reproachful

Reproving Sentence Examples

  • The epistle is taken up with matters of this kind; either the apostle is reproving disorders and abuses actually existing in the Church, and almost sure to exist in a young community that had just adopted a novel method of life and had as yet no settled understanding of the principles involved in it; or else he is replying to definite questions put to him by his converts.

  • He'll show you what law is! the mob were saying as if reproving one another for their lack of confidence.

  • Like Sir Thomas More he held that it was entirely within the competence of the national state, represented by parliament, to determine questions of the succession to the throne; and although Elizabeth did not renew his commission as lord chancellor, he continued to sit in the privy council for two months until the government had determined to complete the breach with the Roman Catholic Church; and as late as April 1559 he assisted the government by helping to arrange the Westminster Conference, and reproving his more truculent co-religionists.

Reproving Is Also Mentioned In

  • reprovingly
  • unreproving
  • wag1
  • reproval
  • reproach
  • reproof

Words near Reproving in the Thesaurus

  • reproofs
  • reproval
  • reprove
  • reproved
  • reprover
  • reproves
  • reproving
  • reptile
  • reptiles
  • reptilian
  • republic
  • republican
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