irreproachable


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ir·re·proach·a·ble

 (ĭr′ĭ-prō′chə-bəl)
adj.
Perfect or blameless in every respect; faultless: irreproachable conduct.

ir′re·proach′a·bil′i·ty, ir′re·proach′a·ble·ness n.
ir′re·proach′a·bly adv.
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irreproachable

(ˌɪrɪˈprəʊtʃəbəl)
adj
not deserving reproach; blameless
ˌirreˌproachaˈbility, ˌirreˈproachableness n
ˌirreˈproachably adv
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ir•re•proach•a•ble

(ˌɪr ɪˈproʊ tʃə bəl)

adj.
not reproachable; free from blame.
[1625–35]
ir`re•proach`a•bil′i•ty, n.
ir`re•proach′a•bly, adv.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.irreproachable - free of guiltirreproachable - free of guilt; not subject to blame; "has lived a blameless life"; "of irreproachable character"; "an unimpeachable reputation"
clean-handed, guiltless, innocent - free from evil or guilt; "an innocent child"; "the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty"
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irreproachable

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irreproachable

adjective
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Translations
irreprochável

irreproachable

[ˌɪrɪˈprəʊtʃəbl] ADJ [conduct] → irreprochable, intachable
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irreproachable

[ˌɪrɪˈprəʊtʃəbəl] adj [character, behaviour] → irréprochable
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irreproachable

adj mannerstadellos, einwandfrei; conduct alsountadelig
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irreproachable

[ˌɪrɪˈprəʊtʃəbl] adj (conduct) → irreprensibile
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References in classic literature ?
They were just enough not to blame Norah for this; they were just enough to acknowledge that her conduct had been as irreproachable as I had guaranteed it should be when I got her the situation.
In the habitual conditions of her life she felt again resolute and irreproachable.
de Treville entered, cool, polite, and in irreproachable costume.
He was irreproachable, as always, today; but he was unmistakably more conscious.
A brow white and void of wrinkles, beneath his long hair, now more white than black; an eye piercing and mild, under the lids of a young man; his mustache, fine but slightly grizzled, waved over lips of a pure and delicate model, as if they had never been curled by mortal passions; a form straight and supple; an irreproachable but thin hand -- this was what remained of the illustrious gentleman whom so many illustrious mouths had praised under the name of Athos.
It was not that any harm could be said concerning the vicar of that charming rural parish to which Dorlcote Mill belonged; he was a man of excellent family, an irreproachable bachelor, of elegant pursuits,--had taken honors, and held a fellowship.
If it will be any satisfaction to you, however, to be told, that I believe his character to be in other respects irreproachable, I am ready to confess it.
"The conduct of neither, if strictly examined, will be irreproachable; but since then, we have both, I hope, improved in civility."
Sillerton Jackson and his sister Sophy (who went wherever her brother told her to), were some of the most fashionable and yet most irreproachable of the dominant "young married" set; the Lawrence Leffertses, Mrs.
But Percerin was a very prudent man; and having heard it said that there was no more dangerous sign for a Protestant than to be smiled up on by Catherine, and having observed that her smiles were more frequent than usual, he speedily turned Catholic with all his family; and having thus become irreproachable, attained the lofty position of master tailor to the Crown of France.
For a long while after he had gone, Pierre did not go to bed or order horses but paced up and down the room, pondering over his vicious past, and with a rapturous sense of beginning anew pictured to himself the blissful, irreproachable, virtuous future that seemed to him so easy.
She had sat on his knee in taverns and other haunts of drunken poets, and it was for her sake, so people said, that he had cured himself of his dissipation, and become the irreproachable literary character that the world knows, whose inspiration had deserted him.