Word: reproacher
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...make the modern business man's relaxation a compulsory part of its curriculum substantiates the fact that great initiatory movements might have their inception in the most unexpected fountainhead. The penetrating of a new frontier by the "middies" is at one and the same time a challenge and a reproach to the rest of the collegiate athletic world which evidently has been far too backward...
...success of his gesture was greater than Nelson knew. Not because, after his canoe had tipped over and he had been lugged ashore, Claire had the momentary pang of remorse it had been his intention to inspire. But because, on their subsequent encounter, he employed a term of callow reproach of which the effect upon Claire was wonderful and strange. "Out of her rage and pain and the hot pressure of old, old instincts and urges, intelligence was being born. For the first time in her life she had just had a thought...
...with something of a shock that the Vagabond read in yesterday's CRIMSON under the heading of "The Press" a clipping casting the reproach of crescent materialism upon what is in a modest sort of way the clay, so to speak, for the Vagabond's statue, the merchandise, if you must, of his business--namely, the Harvard curriculum. The writer of the clipping raised, figuratively speaking, his hands in well simulated horror at the thought that whereas the University "has a gigantic new Business School" it offers only 5 courses in Greek, while Princeton and Yale take their places...
Your judgment is beyond reproach...
...corridor of the castle. Said the Kaiser, insult ingly: "You too belong to the rascals of the Foreign Office who cheated and lied to me throughout my reign." Replied Baron von Maltzan: "I beg pardon, but as far as I am concerned I do not deserve this reproach. May I respectfully remind you of the observations I made to you in 1914 on my return from Peking when I pointed out Germany's wrong policy in Eastern Asia. Furthermore it was I who, as representative of the Foreign Office on Germany's Eastern front, as early...