Reproach in a sentence as a noun

"Julian said" is not implying that what he was saying is beyond reproach.

What you call a "forceful reproach" is nothing more than name-calling.

> they need to be beyond reproachI don't understand this thinking.

My cofounder would have been considered by anyone that looked at him to be beyond reproach.

Coming first doesn't elevate you above reproach or scrutiny.

Like most of us here, I believe that in total the market is a force for good, but let's please not pretend that market forces are self-justifying or beyond reproach.

" excuses used to pass laws, and just as insidious because it is automatically above reproach in exactly the same way.

Flipping it on it's head, I could say that environmentalism is beyond reproach because it has people like David Suzuki [1] as its champions.

Reproach in a sentence as a verb

The most striking aspect I can see is how consistent almost all comments are: I’d made the same reproach to TED, or any ‘democracy’ without a scandal.

Government over-spending is beyond reproach when the money is channeled to what are likely politically-connected private firms?

NPR is a great example... there is lots of coverage of various wall street schemes, mention of greed as a problem in the private sector, etc., but the underlying message in most of the stories is that government is beyond reproach.

It would be like surviving an assassination attempt -- and if you could prove it you would become practically beyond reproach, because anything anyone ever said bad about you again could be attributed to the blackmailers.

You can't reproach the institution without also reproaching its members, because otherwise the members don't feel any responsibility for whatever you disapprove of about the institution and carry on with business as usual.

Why is their conduct more important than the people they're reporting on, people we already know are misusing law and the power of government?If anything, intel agencies and governments need to convince me they're beyond reproach or I'm just going to assume that their amoral ways will only get worse.

Cries of protest against the slackness of American education, hitherto raised only by a small number of educational critics, were now taken up by television, mass magazines, businessmen, scientists, politicians, admirals, and university presidents, and soon swelled into a national chorus of self-reproach.

Reproach definitions

noun

a mild rebuke or criticism; "words of reproach"

noun

disgrace or shame; "he brought reproach upon his family"

verb

express criticism towards; "The president reproached the general for his irresponsible behavior"

See also: upbraid