Word of the Day: reproach

The word reproach has appeared in 35 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Sept. 8 in the obituary “Queen Elizabeth II Dies at 96; Was Britain’s Longest-Reigning Monarch” by Alan Cowell:

Even when confronted with unscripted departures, as on a state visit to the United States in 2007, when President George W. Bush almost misspoke in her presence to imply that she might be two centuries older than she was, she maintained her composure with just a regal glance.

“She gave me a look that only a mother could give a child,” Mr. Bush said after the queen peered quizzically at him on a shared podium.

Her personal behavior, unlike that of most of her family, was beyond reproach, never tainted by even the remotest hint of scandal. Elizabeth offered her subjects a mirror of the high moral standards that many might aspire to but most generally fail to attain.

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