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Meanings of admonitory in английском
Expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective.
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Examples for "warning"
Examples for "warning"
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Without warning, Right leaped; Left was no more than a moment behind.
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Six years ago, the European Commission issued a formal warning to government.
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Europe's privacy rules, which took effect last year, were surely a warning.
4
His warning came after the government failed to approve key budget measures.
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She said the new warning system would help reassure tourists and operators.
1
The world needs exemplary leaders and unfortunately there's a shortage of them.
2
Elsewhere in the solar system, NASA's probes will continue their exemplary exploration.
3
Thames Water's safety record is exemplary, but the dangers are ever present.
4
His exemplary service to community, country and region did not go unnoticed.
5
When the raid came, the children behaved in the most exemplary fashion.
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A cautionary tale comes from International Animal Rescue's Tickling is Torture campaign.
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It's just another cautionary tale in the age of social media campaigning.
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No doubt about it, there is a savage, cautionary intelligence at work.
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And prudent investors generally heed that cautionary advice before making investment decisions.
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That's why Gabriel strikes a cautionary note about the downtown housing rush.
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The lawyer's monitory hand rose again, and he turned to the clerk.
2
Five years she listened to these monitory voices with internal struggles.
3
Huge steam-driven vehicles came and went, whirling about the open space with monitory bell-clang.
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The monitory voice penetrated at last; Harriet awoke, smiling.
5
His tone is kindly, 'My sons,' but yet monitory.
Usage of admonitory in английском
1
She raised her delicate eyebrows in a most exasperating well-bred, admonitory way.
2
Such a display, in such a place, is rational, suitable, and admonitory.
3
She knew that kindly admonitory tone, that complacent misconception of her meaning.
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She shot an admonitory glance at her son, who said: Immensely, sir.
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In admonitory tone the chairman said: Tell me to whom you are referring.
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His spirits were too high to notice the admonitory note in her voice.
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Hardyman gave her waist a little admonitory squeeze with his arm
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But Prudence only struck at him with a gently admonitory hand.
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Fenton, with an admonitory gesture toward his subordinate, turned directly toward the staircase.
10
Brown wrote a variety of essays, generally rather admonitory than humorous.
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He put his hand on Piers' shoulder and gave it an admonitory shake.
12
Bill Henderson raised an admonitory finger and shook it under the Colonel's nose.
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Son of a... The old man caught his wife's admonitory glance.
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But it was long before the distance eclipsed that admonitory finger of the Eiffel.
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After the passage of other admonitory letters and telegrams, we received the following letter.
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She waved an admonitory hand toward the window, and the box went up swiftly.
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Admonitory across language varieties
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