How To Use Admonitory In A Sentence
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There may even have been some admonitory finger-waving.
Lay off the Old Firm, Mr Salmond – Glasgow has more 'shameful' problems | Kevin McKenna
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I had heard from good authority that "to those whose propensities were known, Duroc's information that the Empress was visible was accompanied with a kind of admonitory or courtly hint, that the strictest decency in dress and manners, and a conversation chaste, and rather of an unusually modest turn, would be highly agreeable to their Sovereigns, in consideration of the solemn occasion of a Sovereign
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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Sandra Gilbert, past president of the MLA, is both funny and wisely admonitory.
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The last Divinity of poor mankind dethroning himself; sinking _his_ taper too, flame downmost, like the Genius of Sleep or of Death; admonitory that Tailor time shall be no more!
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
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An important thing to remember is that the state still owns all of the land in Ethiopia, an admonitory lesson on the dubious benefits of Georgist land tenure.
Ethiopia Bleg, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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But you can't really tell the animal off; it's in a cat's nature after all, and they wouldn't understand an admonitory tap on the nose.
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Back at my apartment I found an admonitory email from Doug, the CEO. ‘Hi Peter,’ it said. ‘Hope you have incorporated what you learned the other day into your lifestyle.’
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To the captains, supercargoes, or younger merchants in their employ, experienced traders wrote admonitory letters filled with advice regarding the selection of the right Hong merchant to handle a cargo.
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
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‘Ah, ah, ah,’ Vic said, shaking an admonitory finger at him.
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The scriptures of Semitic inspiration are hortative, admonitory; they urge, they reprove, they enjoin, they warn.
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There is something a little admonitory—even perhaps retaliatory—about such a response.
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‘I'll laugh when that thing stops in the middle of the road in the rain,’ I joked in an admonitory tone.
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Helen entered in time to retrieve, wipe clean, and re-insert it - with an admonitory look - the instant before Nurse Manning turned.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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Here, the resulting distortions have become so embarrassing that the sub-entries have recently been left blank, with an admonitory footnote to the effect that the omission arises because the numbers are not to be trusted!
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He spoke in Tibetan, and his delivery was stern and admonitory , like a forbidding, old-fashioned father reprimanding his children.
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Slate has picked it up, and I read also (some months after the fact) the admonitory article in the Chronicle on this subject some months ago.
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Etskae shook his head, and waved an admonitory finger.
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Em asked curiously, not at all affected by his admonitory expression.
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And after the trauma of so many admonitory sermons on the sins of his late father, he never thereafter regarded Scottish Presbyterianism as a fit religion for a gentleman.
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Whether or not this little tale is true, it does pack an admonitory sting in its tale.
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When Heather's book appeared, indeed, a number of conservative commentators remarked it, calling admonitory attention to its author's thesis that a kind of illegal immigration, or technically legal immigration by culturally inassimilable people, played a major role in killing off the largest, longest-lived, most functionally universal polity that ever existed.
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe
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The report's tone is admonitory, its assertions sweeping.
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Amongst so excitable a people as the Arabs, this game caused quarrels and bloodshed, hence its prohibition: and the theologians, who everywhere and at all times delight in burdening human nature, have extended the command, which is rather admonitory than prohibitive, to all games of chance.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Hence he is apt to become narrative and admonitory, that is to say, fond of telling long stories, and of doling out advice, to the small profit and great annoyance of his friends.
Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies
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Even as he'd spoken, there had been an admonitory voice in the back of his head, warning that he was saying far too much.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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His commentary is inevitably wise and slightly admonitory in tone, as if he cannot bear a mistake he picks out of a fighter's performance: ‘He carried his right hand too low and he's going to suffer for it.’
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There is something a little admonitory - even, perhaps, retaliatory - about such a response.
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But when you ask for it back, don't be surprised to get an admonitory finger-wagging about being over-fixated on money and wealth, when you really should be thinking more about wellbeing and the work-life balance.
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Unlike all the other men, he had no private books, no mezzotints of family grandees, no clutches of letters from admonitory father or teary mother or whispery girl back home.
Son of a Witch
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But I suspect other biographers write about lives they consider to be exemplary or admonitory.
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Junichi watched as Murasaki chided her master with a grim expression on her face and her tone was gently admonitory.
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Her words were admonitory, but there was a smile in her voice and a laugh in her eyes.
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The last Divinity of poor mankind dethroning himself; sinking _his_ taper too, flame downmost, like the Genius of Sleep or of Death; admonitory that Tailor-time shall be no more!
Past and Present
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Venner was only slightly less admonitory.
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The discourses of Jesus on the subject appear to be admonitory rather than predictive.