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admonishing

adjective as in cautionary

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Dissatisfied with a sum he considered “pocket change” for the multibillion-dollar bank, he admonished the SEC for leaving “defrauded investors substantially short-changed.”

In one case, a federal judge in Manhattan admonished the NYPD for not having turned over evidence in a case where a man died after being tackled by police outside Yankee Stadium.

The Obama administration seemed to realize Tuesday that publicly admonishing Russia was not producing the outcome they desired.

He made an admonishing speech to Wall Street last week, but it was a day late and a trillion dollars short.

Not long before he died, Randy replied to one of my forwarded links by gently admonishing me.

And he gave me a severe and admonishing look before going off on another and more urgent call that waited him.

Jerry nodded an admonishing head in the direction from whence the musical sounds had come.

And so I lay and watched and envied her and them, admonishing sand hoppers between whiles.

Those sudden pangs of the body seemed like over-forward confessors abruptly admonishing him.

“Ruth,” she changed, as the Flying W girl held up an admonishing finger.

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to admonishing, such as: warning, admonitory, exemplary, monitory, and reproachful.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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