| Reproachful 1. (a.) Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive. 2. (a.) Occasioning or deserving reproach; shameful; base; as, a reproachful life. Thesaurus Entries abusive, admonitory, blackening, blameful, censorious, condemnatory, contemptuous, critical, damnatory, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, derisive, disapproving, disparaging, execrating, execrative, execratory, hypercritical, invective, inveighing, judgmental, objurgatory, priggish, reprobative, reviling, ridiculing, scoffing, scolding, upbraiding, vilifying, vituperative |