What is "irreproachable"

Usage examples of "irreproachable".

I said, laughing down from lazy eyelids and nicking a speck of dust from the irreproachable Mechlin lace at my wrists.

Her rather queer and ironical beauty, her cool irreproachable wifeliness, was a constant balm to him.

Irreproachable, reticent, it might be dying, Adela would no longer affect interests she did not feel.

The irreproachable conduct obtained for her a reputation of respectability which, at her age, would have been held as ridiculous and even insulting by any other woman belonging to the same profession, and many ladies of the highest rank honoured her with her friendship more even than with their patronage.

Gaspilton, had always looked indulgently on the country as a place where people of irreproachable income and hospitable instincts cultivated tennis-lawns and rose-gardens and Jacobean pleasaunces, wherein selected gatherings of interested week-end guests might disport themselves.

His morals were irreproachable, and I remember his telling me that the only way to give precepts was to do so by example.

Groups of English and American students in their irreproachable evening attire, groups of French students in someone else's doubtful evening attire, crowds of rustling silken dominoes, herds of crackling muslin dominoes, countless sad-faced Pierrots, fewer sad-faced Capuchins, now and then a slim Mephistopheles, now and then a fat, stolid Turk, 'Arry, Tom, and Billy, redolent of plum pudding and Seven Dials, Gontran, Gaston and Achille, savoring of brasseries and the Sorbonne.

Your husband might have pardoned a youthful fault atoned for by twenty years of irreproachable conduct.

According to the irreproachable testimony of Origen, ^183 the proportion of the faithful was very inconsiderable, when compared with the multitude of an unbelieving world.

Alicia Dammers, with her good looks, her tall, slim figure, and her irreproachable sartorial taste, had satisfied his very fastidious requirements so far as feminine appearance was concerned.

Bad enough that a wife and Queen should consent to dance with multiple partners, but this might have been excused on the basis of royal obligation, had she but limited herself to greying dodderers of irreproachable character and non-existent appeal.

The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.

Do you know that he’s the honestest and faithfullest fellow that ever lived, and that he has an irreproachable good name?

The Revolution demands another interpreter, like itself captivatingly fitted out, and Robespierre fits the bill,[81] with his irreproachable attire, well-powdered hair, carefully brushed coat,[82] strict habits, dogmatic tone, and formal, studied manner of speaking.

He would then produce his irreproachable alibi--and, hey presto, he was safe for life!