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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to reproof:   (188 results)

Often used in the same context:
reproach, chastisement, rebuke, knave, penances, dissembler, admonishment, shirker, homiletic, fornicator, scoldings, idolater, approbation, scorn, repugnantly, prostration, ridicule, suppliant, harlotry, forsooth, solecism, impertinence, schoolmasters, sluggard, penitence, gulling, blackguard, deceiver, admonition, lovingkindness, old codger, provoker, wiseman, imprecation, obedience, denunciations, holy writ, coinages, condign, transgressors, enormities, orotund, mountebank, amour propre, derision, doeth, persiflage, weepiness, reproving, philosophe, husbandly, fusspot, demurral, acquiescence, malignity, sinner, doth, dogmatist, encouragement, platitude, flagellation, sirs, flatteries, malchus, moralizing, beardie, abasement, good naturedness, whoremonger, panegyrics, impeccability, unorthodoxy, reprobate, correctives, scruple, poltroon, complaisance, aphorism, disobedience, bluffers, percipient, insulter, cognomen, bowdlerization, huzzahs, castigation, barbarisms, buncombe, circumlocutions, popinjay, insolence, epigrams, oafs, bootlicking, apostle, pollyanna, locution, infamies, retort, scoundrels, misguidance, opprobrium, remonstrance, reprimand, reproofs, censure, rebukes, reproaches, disapproval, disapprobation, condemnation, reprehension, admonitions, expostulation, displeasure, rebuff

More specific:
admonishment, admonition, bawling out, berating, blowing up, brush down, castigate, castigation, chasten, chastening, chastise, chastisement, chastize, chewing out, chiding, correct, correction, dressing down, earful, going-over, lecture, monition, objurgate, objurgation, reproach, riot act, scolding, speech, talking to, tell off, upbraiding, what for

Appears in the definition of:
admonished, admonishing, admonitory, chastened, expostulation, now, rebuked, reprehensibility, reprimanded, reproachful, reproved, reproving, unadmonished, unchastened, unrebuked, unreproved

More general:
criticise, criticism, criticize, pick apart, unfavorable judgment

Synonyms:
bawl out, berate, check, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprehension, reprimand, reproval, scold

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— Adjectives for reproof: gentle, mild, severe, sharp, stern, public, harsh, grave, implied, silent, mock, more...

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