No reproaches even, even when pointed and barbed
with the sharpest wit, appeared to give him pain.
--Macaulay.
Give not thine heritage to reproach. --Joel ii. 17.
2. A cause of blame or censure; shame; disgrace.
3. An object of blame, censure, scorn, or derision.
Come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem,
that we be no more a reproach. --Neh. ii. 17.
Syn: Disrepute; discredit; dishonor; opprobrium; invective;
contumely; reviling; abuse; vilification; scurrility;
insolence; insult; scorn; contempt; ignominy; shame;
scandal;; disgrace; infamy.
I thought your marriage fit; else imputation, For
that he knew you, might reproach your life. --Shak.
2. To attribute blame to; to allege something disgracefull
against; to charge with a fault; to censure severely or
contemptuously; to upbraid.
If ye be reproached for the name of Christ. --1
Peter iv. 14.
That this newcomer, Shame, There sit not, and
reproach us as unclean. --Milton.
Mezentius . . . with his ardor warmed His fainting
friends, reproached their shameful flight. Repelled
the victors. --Dryden.
Syn: To upbraid; censure; blame; chide; rebuke; condemn;
revile; vilify.