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Vocabulary: Reproach and blame - English lesson
Criticising

This lesson should give you the vocabulary and the expressions which are necessary to understand a conversation about the topic and participate in it easily...
To reproach sb with something | To criticise sb for something |
To blame someone for something | To take the blame |
To lay the blame on someone | Don't blame me if... |
To shift the blame on | A scapegoat
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To condemn someone for something | To find fault with someone |
To denounce someone | To accuse someone of something |
To scold sb for something | To lecture someone |
To take sb to task | To give a rap on the knuckles |
To show contempt | To despise/ to scorn |
To denigrate someone => To run sb down => | => To pour scorn on someone |
What's defamation? Difference between "libel" and "slander"?
http://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/enforcementguide/court/reporting-defamation.htm
A criticism | Accusing |
Alleged | Blameworthy |
A reproach | A reprimand |
Reproachful Reproving | To tick off To tell sb off |
To libel sb | To slander |
Libel Slander | Contempt |
Contemptuous Scornful | Contemptible Despicable |
To scold a child
A FEW IDIOMS and SAYINGS:
- A blame game
- Bad workers always blame their tools...
- To put the finger of blame on someone
- To be beyond reproach/ above reproach
- You should never have done such a thing!
- He was wrong to do that!
- I am entirely to blame for it!
- I'm not to blame!
- I shall not hold this against you!
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