be a reproach to sb/sth
to be something that should make a person or organization feel ashamed:
His immaculate garden was a reproach to all his less organized neighbours.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Chastising & rebuking
- admonition
- barracking
- bawl
- be in sb's face idiom
- beat yourself up
- bring
- dressing-down
- jump down sb's throat idiom
- keelhaul
- lambaste
- lay
- neck
- rebuke
- reprimand
- reproachful
- there'll be hell to pay idiom
- throw
- throw the book at sb idiom
- tirade
- upbraid
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