If you give someone a reproving look or speak in a reproving voice, you show or say that you think they have behaved in a wrong or foolish way. `Flatterer,' she said giving him a mock reproving look. + reprovingly reprov·ing·ly `I'm trying to sleep,' he lied, speaking reprovingly. expressing criticism of something that someone has done
If you reprove someone, you speak angrily or seriously to them because they have behaved in a wrong or foolish way. `There's no call for talk like that,' Mrs Evans reproved him Women were reproved if they did not wear hats in court. = admonish. to criticize someone for something that they have done = tell off reprove sb for (doing) sth (reprover, from reprobare , from probare; PROBE)