SYNONYMS AND RELATED EXPRESSIONS
reproachable
adjective
Deserving criticism or blame.
Local English device voice, when available. This is not a recorded dictionary pronunciation.
Deserving blame
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Usage distinction
Return to topReproachable is a formal judgment that criticism is deserved. Reprehensible and condemnable usually express stronger disapproval.
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The committee described the deliberate concealment as reproachable conduct.
Later, the manager distinguished a real seating problem from nitpicking about whether a reusable mug matched the kitchen's paint. She chose to reprimand the tenant after he repeatedly insulted colleagues despite a clear request to stop. The conduct was reproachable because it knowingly made a shared space hostile, not because his taste differed from anyone else's.
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