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admonitory::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | admonishing, reproachful, reproving |
| Derivation | admonish |
admonitory::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | cautionary, exemplary, monitory, warning |
| Derivation | admonish |
Examples of admonitory
admonitory
Hillary's liberalism has a more admonitory edge, in keeping with her buttoned-up demeanor.
From the time.com
After all, her face hardly has the admonitory effect of Keith Richards's.
From the guardian.co.uk
Mr. Fagan's admonitory tone, however, is the book's greatest flaw.
From the online.wsj.com
I found it harder than I had expected to find a voice for telling the myth that was not vatic, or chaunting, or admonitory in the wrong way.
From the guardian.co.uk
The disagreement is encapsulated by Amazonia, which has become the emblem of vanishing wilderness-an admonitory image of untouched Nature.
From the theatlantic.com
To give you an idea of how far away we are from the playfulness of Mortmere, the bleak, admonitory subtitle of the second volume is A Novel of Fact.
From the theatlantic.com
The suggestions range from using Munch's The Scream as an admonitory icon to creating a legend to be handed from generation to generation.
From the guardian.co.uk
The big, admonitory curtain numbers for both acts, led by Macheath with the evil-dead ensemble lined up behind him, feel a bit like sermons from a Hell House.
From the theater.nytimes.com
Alex Keiper's a bad mama who can't live a second without weed, Tom DelPizzo is wonderfully goofy as several characters, and the deadpan Laura Catlaw carries admonitory placards throughout.
From the philly.com
- Serving to warn; "shook a monitory finger at him"; "an exemplary jail sentence"
- Expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective
- Admonition (or "being admonished") is a punishment under Scots law when an offender has been found guilty but is neither imprisoned nor fined but receives a verbal warning and is afterwards set free; the conviction is still recorded. ...
- Of or pertaining to an admonition
