Reproached

Call reproached himself bitterly for carelessness, for assuming the horses were strays. ❋ Larry McMurtry (1995)

It was a comfort to me, truly, that not one of these ever by look or word reproached me for thus so wofully misleading them; and yet, in a certain way, their very forbearance but added to my pain. ❋ Thomas Allibone Janvier (N/A)

Just before the troops left the cars, a young man, (whose name I regret to be unable to give here,) entered one of them, and in bitter terms reproached the troops for aiding in the war against the South. ❋ Unknown (1861)

"And if they carry it out, not only can they not be reproached for that, but they should be praised for confronting this situation." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Lots of my friends, cognizant of my neck problems, have reproached me for failing to pursue this rather obvious route to physical renewal, spiritual equanimity and tighter abs. ❋ Joe Queenan (2012)

Scofield repeatedly reproached her about being “too friendly with the British,” Jane recalled, “but reluctantly kept supplying the operational scotch.” ❋ Jennet Conant (2011)

The French Foreign Minister Alain Juppé in turn reproached the PS for threatening to raise the "old demons of Germanophobia." ❋ Seth Engel (2011)

A little later, in another department of the Wilmax Cannery, lumping as a fruit-distributor among the women, he essayed to carry two boxes of fruit at a time, and was promptly reproached by the other fruit-lumpers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“They discharged her this morning,” he reproached me. ❋ Allison Pang (2011)

After the Countrywide deal began to sour, according to an FCIC investigator, a BofA official even reproached the Fed for approving the deal and then not doing more to support it with regulatory favors. ❋ Jr. Holman W. Jenkins (2011)

These children are well-behaved, they can entertain themselves (and don't have to be held or reproached everywhere you go) and I'm sure you and Remco will do just as great as Anastaszia and Shurf, or Nachtvisser and Sas, or Ragar and Annejet or any other larper. ❋ Nathreee (2010)

Liam, however, reproached with a wink and a face full of teeth. ❋ Benjamin Matvey (2012)

This, of course, is something that this government may be reproached for, and is indeed a source of embarrassment for the country. ❋ Raghida Dergham (2011)

‘You really should have ze pink knickers,’ my assistant reproached me. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Afterwards, when Hendrik Hamel was eager to know all that I had said, and when I told him, he reproached me and was in a pretty rage. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Shortly after his defection from Rome, Johann Döllinger bitterly reproached the First Vatican Council with "doing nothing but defining the private opinions of a single man — Cardinal Robert Bellarmine." ❋ Unknown (2009)

When once reproached by her employer for not taking proper care in this mindless work, Powell claims to have responded by quoting G.K. Chesterton on "the malignity of inanimate objects." ❋ Elizabeth Lowry (2012)