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Example sentences for: reproving

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Herb Kutchins and Stuart Kirk, professors of social work and social welfare respectively, have, in their second joint effort, Making Us Crazy (their first was called The Selling of DSM ), combined the paranoid and the snooty modes of critique to produce a book about the DSM that's more reproving than suspicious, and more earnest than parodic.
Have a nice day (a sincere wish, expressing my hope that the reproving tone of my missive will not tarnish your humor).
Committing slip-ups of one's own, in other words, while brashly reproving the slip-ups of others, would tend to undermine one's moral position somewhat.