admonitory

How To Use admonitory In A Sentence

• 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.
• Whether or not this little tale is true, it does pack an admonitory sting in its tale.
• 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
• The report's tone is admonitory, its assertions sweeping.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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.’
• There is something a little admonitory - even, perhaps, retaliatory - about such a response.
• 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.