VERB
- warn strongly; put on guard
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advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior
She warned him to be quiet
I warn you against false assumptions
I warned him not to go too far
How To Use monish In A Sentence
- Nor were the escorts there to admonish me for asking a rude question of the partying faithful, or to protect the paying customers from the prying media.
- If the people of our charge must ` teach and admonish and exhort each other daily, 'no doubt teachers may do it to one another, without any super-eminency of power or degree. The Reformed Pastor
- In fact, the e-cigs are so realistic-looking, that, when I vaped one in public, a passerby or two admonished me on how bad smoking was for my health!
- Dishonest members are to be admonished; if they continue in dishonest practices, excommunication follows.
- I remember anticipating the possible punishment of being caned for writing about ‘an enemy’ - a Western Christian woman - and later being admonished by mum for provoking the authorities.
- And those who are admonishing us to harden up, toughen up, I think we need to listen to that.
- And yet parents press children to be truthful, admonishing against wild stories and silly lies.
- When they reached the Squad's room, they all turned to either glare at or admonish Vi.
- On leadership From time to time, someone writes in admonishing our team ... ProWomanProLife » Save this House!
- Not to dally longer with the sympathies of our readers, we think it right to premonish them that we are composing an epicedium upon no less distinguished a personage than the Lottery, whose last breath, after many penultimate puffs, has been sobbed forth by sorrowing contractors, as if the world itself were about to be converted into a blank. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864