What's the difference between admonitory and condemnatory?
Admonitory
Definition:
(a.) That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Or Johnson, E – said, with accompanying admonitory finger-wagging and in a schoolmasterly tone by tweeters, emailers, etc up until that last, goal-scoring moment.
(2) While God's primordial warning that He will require a reckoning for the blood shed by suicide has lost nothing of its admonitory and deterrent purpose, Jewish law, as it developed in the course of time, in actual practice takes cognizance only of two kinds of suicide: One that is permissible, by reason of its motivation, and that may in given situations even be highly laudable; and one that is the outcome or symptom of mental disturbances or otherwise legally excusable.
(3) There is something admonitory about this lack of awareness – HIV infection rates are going up among young people.
(4) A Clockwork Orange was Kubrick's fourth production since settling in England in 1960 and it completed a trilogy of admonitory science-fiction movies concerning the fate of the individual in a dehumanised near-future that began with Dr Strangelove and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
(5) While Townsend has succumbed to hamstring trouble, a thoroughly frustrated Shelvey devoted the Bournemouth game to wagging admonitory fingers at underachieving team-mates signed by Graham Carr.
(6) Much as the government might, on this occasion, have relished the idea of this admonitory process being broadcast more widely, Britain still thankfully doesn't do show trials.
Condemnatory
Definition:
(a.) Condemning; containing or imposing condemnation or censure; as, a condemnatory sentence or decree.
Example Sentences:
(1) What publicity the chief minister of the western Indian state of Gujarat could attract outside his homeland was only ever condemnatory, and his political career, barely begun, appeared on the verge of oblivion.
(2) It is a film full of barbed jokes and taboo subjects, and yet this time the mood is more reflective, more compassionate, and more quietly condemnatory of the man at its centre.
(3) The abuse scandals, the attitude towards women, the obsession with ritual at the cost of reality were addressed, but overall the show was not condemnatory.
(4) In the context of an epidemiological investigation of AIDS-related attitudes, 2006 state employees were surveyed to compare the condemnatory orientation of blacks and whites towards homosexuality.
(5) The comments will be directed in part at those in Labour worrying that the party should match the coalition's condemnatory line about benefit abuses, which appears to have significant popular support.
(6) The first draft contained many more condemnatory elements than the final outcome,” a source said.
(7) The letter is condemnatory of the Australian government dumping its “rubbish [refugees]” on Nauru, but is also reflective of Nauruans’ growing disaffection with their own government, widely seen as a corrupt cabal that has bankrupted the once-wealthy island state.
(8) The observation raised the ire of the Labour party, which released a condemnatory statement from Michael Dugher, shadow minister for the Cabinet Office, who said "Families are on average £1,600 a year worse off since David Cameron became prime minister," it read.
(9) They have seen what Isis is like in practice, and could therefore be among our greatest allies in our fight against Isis terrorism, if only we could be less condemnatory.
(10) The reason I am so non-judgmental of Hoffman or Bieber and so condemnatory of the pop cultural tinsel that adorns the reporting around them is that I am a drug addict in recovery, so like any drug addict I know exactly how Hoffman felt when he "went back out".
(11) The Daily Telegraph , among a flurry of condemnatory articles, gleefully reported an MP's belief that the "press laws" mooted "would be more at home in China".
(12) Mr Galloway won a resounding libel victory, with a damages award of £150,000 after Mr Justice Eady described the Telegraph's allegations, as "dramatic and condemnatory".
(13) By Tuesday morning, campus was scrubbed clean of both the condemnatory graffiti and Confederate flags, just in time for all the orientation groups and campus tours filled with bright-eyed prospective Clemson Tigers.
(14) In a lecture a year earlier, David Steel, former leader of the Liberal party, went further in a condemnatory lecture on the decision to leave the power of patronage in the hands of the party leaders.
(15) The militant tactics of the suffragettes were regularly reported, sometimes in neutral ways, but often with condemnatory comments.
(16) Reid is not a natural pluralist – indeed, he favours abolition of the House of Lords – but his condemnatory language was extreme, describing a Liberal Democrat-Labour deal as mutually assured destruction, and adding: " If we continue not listening then we will lose very badly at any subsequent election."
(17) Others people wrote articles about how they felt (generally condemnatory).
(18) For one thing, Francis has said the church needs a "new balance" and a less condemnatory attitude to sexual morality.
(19) Results of the review suggest that caregivers hold prejudiced views of lesbians and are generally condemnatory and ignorant about their lesbian clients.
(20) He has increasingly politicised the judiciary and the law enforcement agencies, with Washington’s annual human rights report on Turkey this summer only one of many recent condemnatory accounts.