reproving in English

verb

1

reprimand or censure (someone).

he was reproved for obscenity

synonyms: reprimand, rebuke, reproach, scold, admonish, chastise, chide, upbraid, berate, take to task, rake/haul over the coals, criticize, censure, tell off, give someone a talking-to, dress down, give someone a dressing-down, give someone an earful, give someone a roasting, rap over the knuckles, slap someone's wrist, castigate

adjective

• reproachful, admonishing, admonitory

verb

• reprimand, rebuke, reproach, scold, admonish, chastise, chide, upbraid, berate, take to task, rake/haul over the coals, criticize, censure, tell off, give someone a talking-to, dress down, give someone a dressing-down, give someone an earful, give someone a roasting, rap over the knuckles, slap someone's wrist, castigate
• admonish

Use "reproving" in a sentence

1. 8 His tone was mildly reproving.

2. 9 She threw him an angry and reproving look/glance.

3. 5 Do not overdo your privilege of reproving me.

4. 3 Do not overdo your privilege of reproving me.

5. 4 "Flatterer," she said giving him a mock reproving look.

6. 2 "Flatterer," she said giving him a mock reproving look.

7. 7 synonyms for Admonishing: admonitory, cautionary, monitory, warning, reproachful, reproving, admonitory

8. 13 Only if the dresses became too tight or too short would he make a gently reproving comment.

9. 30 How forceful are upright words! But what does this reproving from you reprove?

10. Synonyms for Bitching include critical, censorious, condemnatory, condemning, castigatory, reproving, denunciatory, deprecatory, disparaging and disapproving

11. Synonyms for Condemning include denouncing, censuring, criticising, criticizing, blaming, reprehending, reproving, upbraiding, attacking and castigating

12. Synonyms for Cautioning include cautionary, admonitory, admonishing, warning, monitory, premonitory, exemplary, advisory, reproachful and reproving

13. Synonyms for Admonishing include admonitory, cautionary, cautioning, exemplary, monitory, premonitory, warning, reproachful, advisory and reproving

14. Prophets love those they serve and desire to lead them well, even if doing so requires reproving them.

15. N Chiding The act of reproving, rebuking, berating, or scolding; utterance of reproof or reproach

16. Synonyms for Criticizing include critical, censorious, condemnatory, condemning, castigatory, reproving, denunciatory, deprecatory, disparaging and disapproving

17. Synonyms for Bellyaching include critical, censorious, condemnatory, condemning, castigatory, reproving, denunciatory, deprecatory, disparaging and disapproving

18. Synonyms for Accusatorial include condemnatory, critical, faultfinding, harsh, judgmental, reproachful, reproving, severe, accusatory and accusing

19. Admonitory definition: expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective synonyms: unfavorable, unfavourable, reproving, admonishing, reproachful

20. Holiness speaks when there is silence, encouraging that which is good or reproving that which is wrong.

21. Admonishing: 1 adj expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective Synonyms: admonitory , reproachful , reproving unfavorable , unfavourable not encouraging or approving or pleasing

22. Princeton's WordNet (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: admonitory, Admonishing, reproachful, reproving (adj) expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective

23. (Matthew 4:4) Jehovah’s utterances are recorded in his Word, the Bible, and they are “beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight.”

24. One writer puts it this way: “Never are we in greater peril of undue self-assertion, and therefore in greater need of meekness, than in reproving others.”

25. Admonitory - expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective admonishing , reproachful , reproving unfavorable , unfavourable - not encouraging or approving or pleasing; "unfavorable conditions"; "an unfavorable comparison"; "unfavorable comments", "unfavorable impression"