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[ UK /mˈɒnɪtəɹˌi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. serving to warn
    shook a monitory finger at him
    an exemplary jail sentence

How To Use monitory 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.
  • I even had a dream that proved premonitory, in which I did go home for the holidays and I was miserable.
  • A new liberty will arise, so the monitory promise goes, not in any freedom from constraints too subtle for the hungry to perceive, but in class consciousness.
  • All the same, there are two passages in the book that I found eerily premonitory of what she would do ten years later.
  • 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
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