IRREPROACHABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does irreproachable mean? 

• IRREPROACHABLE (adjective)
  The adjective IRREPROACHABLE has 1 sense:

1. free of guilt; not subject to blame

  Familiarity information: IRREPROACHABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRREPROACHABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Free of guilt; not subject to blame

Synonyms:

blameless; inculpable; irreproachable; unimpeachable

Context example:

an unimpeachable reputation

Similar:

clean-handed; guiltless; innocent (free from evil or guilt)

 Context examples 

“The conduct of neither, if strictly examined, will be irreproachable; but since then, we have both, I hope, improved in civility.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

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.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Here was this irreproachable Englishman ready to swear in any court of law that the accused was in the house all the time.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Elizabeth saw even this last resource, her excellent dispositions and irreproachable conduct, about to fail the accused, when, although violently agitated, she desired permission to address the court.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

While Amy dressed, she issued her orders, and Jo obeyed them, not without entering her protest, however, for she sighed as she rustled into her new organdie, frowned darkly at herself as she tied her bonnet strings in an irreproachable bow, wrestled viciously with pins as she put on her collar, wrinkled up her features generally as she shook out the handkerchief, whose embroidery was as irritating to her nose as the present mission was to her feelings, and when she had squeezed her hands into tight gloves with three buttons and a tassel, as the last touch of elegance, she turned to Amy with an imbecile expression of countenance, saying meekly...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I do not mean to justify myself, but at the same time cannot leave you to suppose that I have nothing to urge—that because she was injured she was irreproachable, and because I was a libertine, SHE must be a saint.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)