Question

Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven―a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such acute limited excellence at twenty- one that everything afterward savours of anticlimax. (2) His family was enormously wealthy―even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach―but now he’d left Chicago, and come east in a fashion that rather took your breath away; for instance, he’d brought down a string of polo ponies from Lake Forest. (3) It was hard to realize that a man in my own generation was wealthy enough to do that. what word in this pargraph indicates that toms spending habitits were met with dissaproval

Answer 1

The word is "reproach" (in the phrase "a matter for reproach"), which indicates disapproval of his spending.