What is "admonishment"

Usage examples of "admonishment".

I told him, but he was already backing away, and he dismissed my admonishment with a wave of his hand, as if swatting at a pesky insect.

Past admonishments to Peggy to stop writing than had gone unheeded, widening the rift that already existed between brother and sister.

The body, however, was but a pompous trifle, and I had for many a day held his observes and admonishments in no very reverential estimation.

His right hand was raised, the forefinger wagging up at Jordan Teague as though in admonishment.

But what Lord Grenville thought of this matter, or to what reflections this comely tirade of Lady Portarles led the Comtesse de Tournay, remained unspoken, for the curtain had just risen on the third act of ORPHEUS, and admonishments to silence came from every part of the house.

His brows furrowed in adultlike consternation as he tried to recall an admonishment from his father on the subject of lying.

Overcome with questions and admonishments without direction, Alice fishmouthed into silence.

The tin disappeared into the folds of the shawls, and a crabbed finger shook in admonishment.

Shauna puffed along behind, calling out admonishments and generally trying to keep them under control.

As I entered the hall of our house that noon and in the cool, cellarlike air felt dark admonishments of a thousand bothersome and hateful things and systems wafting into my face, my thoughts were preoccupied with Oskar Weber.

At last the final four men were fetched to Calis and he repeated the admonishment.