(v. t.) To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort.
(v. t.) To counsel against wrong practices; to cation or advise; to warn against danger or an offense; -- followed by of, against, or a subordinate clause.
(v. t.) To instruct or direct; to inform; to notify.
Example Sentences:
(1) The civil rights activist Al Sharpton, on a visit to Ferguson, admonished residents for not voting, including in a primary for the position of the prosecutor now being criticised as unsuitable to handle the investigation of the police officer who shot Brown.
(2) The findings indicate that signs of roentgenoderma can appear already with 800 r and increase rapidly over 1,500 r. The observed irreversible damages, however, were mostly not grave, but admonish a certain amount of restraint.
(3) Cameron also knows that the Commons standards committee met yesterday to decide how severely to admonish a Tory former shadow minister, Patrick Mercer, for breaking parliamentary rules, raising the spectre of more sleaze to come.
(4) The lower house passed a motion admonishing Labor’s defence spokesman, Stephen Conroy, for criticising the commander of Operation Sovereign Borders , Lieutenant General Angus Campbell, while government ministers argued Shorten had failed an important leadership test by not demanding an apology.
(5) As José Mourinho says, some people follow the wind and Chelsea’s manager used his press conference on Friday to admonish one reporter for being too pessimistic about his team.
(6) She also admonishes Dhu for not telling police about her broken ribs when she checked in.
(7) As the president-elect said today, and as I admonished members of the House Republican conference today, it’s important that we remind the American people of what they already know about Obamacare, that the promises that were made were all broken, and I expect you’ll see an effort in the days ahead to talk about the facts around Obamacare,” Pence said.
(8) He's constantly admonishing himself, or questioning himself, or palpably fearing death.
(9) There is a recommendation for a duty of candour to be placed in the NHS constitution, obliging hospitals to be "honest, open and truthful", in effect an admonishment for past misdeeds.
(10) This evidence admonishes against the prolonged use of these drugs in non-fatal disorders.
(11) Noting Beijing’s public admonishments of Kim’s regime over its nuclear programme, Park said it was time for China to move beyond rhetoric.
(12) They admonish close monitoring of renal function and enzymuria in clinical situations in which L-AMB is being used.
(13) Beginning by politely but firmly admonishing one journalist for misrepresenting him in a previous article, Beckham explained he had only ever wanted to be a footballer and was now living the life of his dreams.
(14) As he sentenced Gary Dobson and David Norris to serve a minimum of 15 years and two months and 14 years and three months respectively for the "terrible and evil" murder, Mr Justice Treacy unexpectedly admonished the Metropolitan police in front of a packed courtroom.
(15) What Damon should be doing ... is using Everett as a case study for why the way gay actors are treated in Hollywood needs to change,” admonished Kevin Fallon of the Daily Beast.
(16) July 15, 2015 SNP activists attacked some of the coverage of her speech, pointing out the BBC’s Reporting Scotland programme did not feature a clip of the speech itself, only the subsequent admonishment of SNP MPs for clapping.
(17) In a show that nudges three hours, they encourage the audience to do the black power salute, admonish the wrongdoing their brothers suffered over Hurricane Katrina ('Fuck George Bush!'
(18) How did we get from the benign Dr Winnicott to the admonishing Jo Frost ?
(19) He said the internal culture would not be changed by public admonishment by either himself, or by the new Labor leader, Bill Shorten – by “finger waving”.
(20) The QPR chairman, Tony Fernandes, had issued a statement on Tuesday admonishing the pair for the spat which had erupted over the midfielder’s weight and ordered both parties to cease their war of words.
Angry
Definition:
(superl.) Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous.
(superl.) Inflamed and painful, as a sore.
(superl.) Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; -- followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing.
(superl.) Showing anger; proceeding from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger; as, angry words or tones; an angry sky; angry waves.
(superl.) Red.
(superl.) Sharp; keen; stimulated.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet those who have remained committed have become ever more angry.
(2) But it still seemed unlikely, despite the angry and determined mood, that the kingdom would risk ground operations, informed sources said – not least because the main strongholds of Isis are far away in northeastern Syria and across the border in Iraq.
(3) He was angry that the journal had not asked him to review the paper, or at least comment on it, before publication.
(4) • Democratic senators were angry at what they saw as a House attempt to "torpedo" – Harry Reid's word – what they saw as a perfectly viable, bipartisan Senate agreement.
(5) Pretty much every major toy brand, as well as apps like Angry Birds and Talking Friends, are spawning “webisodes” on YouTube as well as traditional ads, which often sit side-by-side within the same channel.
(6) Thirty-two nursing students were shown silent films in which 10 normal and 10 schizophrenic women described a happy, sad, and an angry personal experience.
(7) I don't like it when people say, 'The youth are angry.
(8) But with this, they have managed to mobilise the young, and we are very angry.
(9) Fox will be accompanied by the sporting director, Hendrik Almstadt, on the back of the 1-1 draw against Wycombe Wanderers in the FA Cup on Saturday, when their failure to beat a League Two side culminated in angry scenes involving the away supporters.
(10) 12.35pm BST Want to feel depressed and a bit angry at modern football?
(11) The clashes between the moralistic Levin and his friend Oblonsky, sometimes affectionate, sometimes angry, and Levin's linkage of modernity to Oblonsky's attitudes – that social mores are to be worked around and subordinated to pleasure, that families are base camps for off-base nooky – undermine one possible reading of Anna Karenina , in which Anna is a martyr in the struggle for the modern sexual freedoms that we take for granted, taken down by the hypocritical conservative elite to which she, her lover and her husband belong.
(12) RBS chief executive Ross McEwan apologised to consumers: “To say I’m angry would be an understatement.
(13) They’re angry because they can’t afford to send their kids to college so they can’t retire with dignity.” One of the signs that voters still lack confidence in the US job market is the labor participation rate, which in 2015 reached its lowest point in 38 years.
(14) Conservative MPs and constituency chairmen have been handling hundreds of complaints from grassroots activists angry at David Cameron's desire to legalise gay marriage amid further defections from the party and resignations among rank and file members.
(15) Verbally abused children were more angry and more pessimistic about their future.
(16) But, as always, watch the Mail – and watch it fall into familiar angry mode.
(17) This is a dangerous moment for politics in Britain: it is not the moment to ignore or belittle the angry cry from voters telling us they are deeply sick of politics as usual.
(18) : Would you feel angry?, produced significantly more affirmative responses (reports of feeling angry) than non-inducing questions, e.g.
(19) This prompted an angry response from the bill's sponsors who accused opponents of using border security as an excuse to block any immigration reform.
(20) It was very tense, they were very angry, but we tried to be respectful, while explaining that I was doing my job taking photos.