2[countableC]BLAME a remark that blames or criticizes someone 责备之言
a mild reproof
温和的责备
Examples from the Corpus
reproof• There had been something of a reproof in that letter, even though no word of it had been written openly.• Shame on shame, and the sight of the awfulmixture of distress and reproof in his parents' faces.• A similardistinction may be made between praise and reproof on the one hand and credit and blame on the other.• Her voice was balanced precisely between reproof and mildshock.• When Gebrec approached, he took him by the arm and murmured something which Melissa took to be a mild reproof.• a sharpreproof• No reason for the reproof is suggested.• The reproof of Beatrice is not, I conceive, as remote as it might seem from our own world.• The reproof, justified or not, is significant.
Originreproof
(1300-1400)Old Frenchreprove, from reprover; → REPROVE