Reproaching

But it looks now as if we were going to be made to look the laggards -- and our friends and neighbours will, I fear, be much less delicate in reproaching us with being slow than we were on other occasions. ❋ Unknown (1950)

Thus, in reproaching Israel as an abandoned people, they reflected on the God of Israel as an unkind unfaithful God. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The Tally article came along slowly, its price tag reproaching me for every sloppy phrase. ❋ Francis, Dick (1968)

He could not bear the idea of reproaching him any more. ❋ Unknown (1931)

Next morning, when he saw Olivier, he did not tell him anything: he so detested the idea of reproaching him, -- reproaching him for having abused his confidence and flung his secrets into the enemy's maw, -- that he could not find a single word to say to him. ❋ Romain Rolland (1905)

When I first observed it ” by her beginning to take liberties, such as reproaching me tenderly if I came later than usual, or could not stay long, and similar things ” I was obliged, to prevent her making a fool of herself, to tell her the truth in a civil manner. ❋ Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956 (1903)

They were awakened by Possum, who was indignantly reproaching a tree squirrel for not coming down to be killed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After the inauguration, Samuelson had become less of a scold and more circumspect in reproaching the president. ❋ Anonymous (2011)

Bill said, “I wish I had known that before — I have been reproaching myself all these years.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

She still treasures the memory of overhearing, from her basement dressing room, a departing member of the audience reproaching, "Arthur, you told me it was all about nuns and children!" ❋ Unknown (2011)

President Bashar al-Assad is butchering his own rebellious citizens and other than public expressions reproaching the massacre in Syria, the world does nothing. ❋ Haggai Carmon (2011)

His comments, at a press conference in Islamabad, may have been aimed as much at preventing India from launching a unilateral raid on Pakistani territory in revenge for the 2008 Mumbai massacres as reproaching Washington. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And you are reproaching us for refusing Browder a visa… ❋ Gregory White (2011)

I did not spend my entire youth reproaching my parents for the fact that I was going to pay it off. ❋ Unknown (2011)