reproachfullyadv.

1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance xxxix. 96 Two gentilmen dwellynge hereby,..alway had enuy at Marcus Geminus, & mought not susteine his commendation, but vsed to speke reprochfully of hym.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. xii. sig. Kk3 Most of them..Spake reprochfully, not caring where nor when. View more context for this quotation

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 83 They cannot speak more reprochfully of any Host, then to say;..I did not eate my belly full there.

1678 R. Barclay Apol. Quakers xi. §8. 359 From this, the name of Quakers, i.e. Tremblers, was first reproachfully cast upon us.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. ii. 117 These persons made up the Committee of State (which was reproachfully after call'd the Juncto, and enviously then in the Court the Cabinet Council).

a1714 J. Sharp Serm. (1754) III. xi. 199 To speak a word against him, will be to talk slightly and reproachfully of him; as calling him a glutton, or a wine-bibber.

1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. i. iii. 26 Why does she look reproachfully at me..if I attempt to draw her to the past?

1867 Mrs. H. Wood Orville Coll. I. ix. 214 George..glanced reproachfully at her as he turned.

1926 S. T. Warner Lolly Willowes ii. 79 ‘Lilies at this time of year!’ Caroline would say, not reproachfully, but still with a consciousness that in the drawing-room there were dahlias.

1991 B. Leigh Catch of Hands 117 The puppy..lay curled and watching me reproachfully, his blanket chewed to shreds.

1567 E. Hake tr. Thomas à Kempis Imitation of Christ lix. 130 Nature is afearde of reproch & contempt, but Grace reioyceth to be vsed reprochfully for the name of Christ.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) ii. iv. 98 Shall I then be vs'd reproachfully ? View more context for this quotation

1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. i. 118 William Bussey..is committed to the Tower of London, and most reproachfully used.

1668 Earl of Clarendon Vindic. in Tracts (1727) 49 Publickly and reproachfully executed and put to death.

1713 T. Birch in Guardian 22 Apr. 1/1 I do not know any sort of Wit that hath been used so reproachfully as the Punn.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Shabbily, meanly; reproachfully; despicably; paltrily.

1822 Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pa.) 26 June 1/1 This great and all important branch of rural economy, has been hitherto most reproachfully neglected.

1894 H. Caine Manxman iii. xxv She would be with him always;..the more reproachfully and unattainably, because she would be the wife of another man.

1990 Observer (Nexis) 23 Dec. 40 Schloss, palace, art gallery, opera house, church,..all surrounded by the reproachfully terrible tat of the last 45 years.