0 something that you say or do to show that you disapprove of someone's bad or silly behaviour: --
I must administer a reproof to myself and to others.
The appalling organisation of the polytechnic would not even, beyond a mild reproof, deal with the students who did it.
I contend, without heat or feeling, that that reproof was wrong.
I accept the reproof in the friendly spirit in which it was given.
I am aware that that reproof could often be applied to the whole human race.
It is not a reproof in the slightest.
It is praising the security forces, and never saying a word of reproof for these happenings.
I do not think anybody would echo that reproof to-day.
