Sentence examples for reproachful language from inspiring English sources
Rule 49: "Use no reproachful language against any one; neither curse nor revile".
Several sections of the penal code pertaining to dueling, including one that prohibits "the use of reproachful language in print for not accepting or fighting a duel". A violation could cost you $750.
Blasphemy: "Cursing and Swearing, vile reproachful Language, tending to the Dishonour of God". Sacrilege: "the stealing of Sacred Things, Church Robbing; an Alienation to Laymen, and to profane and common Purposes, of what was given to religious Persons, and to pious Uses". Martin, A New Universal English Dictionary (London, 1754).
1. No. 49: Use no reproachful language against anyone; neither curse nor revile.
Blasphemy: "an uttering of reproachful Words, that tend to the Dishonour of God, &c". Sacrilege: "the stealing of Sacred Things, Church robbing". Cocker, English Dictionary (London, 1724).
(In a version of Alejandro Sanz's reproachful, love-sick "Aprendiz," he improvised without words).
A potent, reproachful absence.
Hemingway gave me a long, reproachful look.
She sounded reproachful, which she didn't mean to be.
His son gave him a reproachful look.
