The word "reproving" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when someone has done something wrong and you want to express disapproval. For example, "My teacher gave me a reproving look when I got the answer wrong."
Since Mr Abacha took over in 1993, Britain and America have tried reproving words and mild sanctions to push him towards democracy.
Beijing University put up notices reproving students for some rowdy behaviour and ordering calm.
Jacob rebuked Simeon and Levi for arousing the enmity of neighbouring tribes and, on his deathbed, gave his blessing to their younger brother Judah, reproving Simeon and Levi for their cruelty.
Bonaventure used his authority so prudently that, placating the first group and reproving the second, he preserved the unity of the order and reformed it in the spirit of St. Francis.
First was the basic moral stance of reproving vice and rewarding virtue.
"I may be drunk," Winston famously told a reproving Bessie Braddock, "but you are ugly – and I shall be sober in the morning".
But Mr Cardoso had to reprove him publicly for refusing to talk.
Recently, residents have been stirred out of their habitual calm by a heavy-handed official effort to reprove their listening habits.
Mr Wiseman admires the "craftsman" Louis Kahn, reproves the intellectual Peter Eisenman and distrusts the trend to fantasy.
In his annual state address, he also called for more defence spending, and reproved external critics and enemies.Nicolas Sarkozy, France's interior minister and would-be president, testified to investigating judges in the "Clearstream affair".
When he called a young partner at his bank into his office to reprove him for being caught in an adulterous affair, the lad is said to have protested: "But, sir, you and the other partners do the same thing yourselves behind closed doors".
