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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
admonish .
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Examples
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Following the Casablanca Conference, Mr. Churchill again admonished
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A week later, Mr. Mathewson was again admonished for wearing a gay pride T-shirt, this one featuring a rainbow and the inscription “I’m gay and I’m proud.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » The First Amendment in high school: 2004
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Khan, (the Khasmahul's son-in-law,) and others of equal rank, all in loud terms admonished the assailants, and demanded the surrender of the children, but all were alike unheeded.
A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822
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I read in one comment somewhere that you felt "admonished" for your choice.
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I've seen several presidents on tv heckled by members of congress and none of them were "admonished" for their behavior.
Resolution criticizing Wilson passes, on mostly partisan vote 2009
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Black must appear in court in Chicago tomorrow to be formally "admonished" of the terms of his $2m (£1. 3m) bail by US federal court judge Amy St Eve, who ordered his release at a hearing there yesterday on the condition he remained in the US.
Conrad Black released from Florida jail ? but judge rules he has to stay in US Ewen MacAskill in Chicago 2010
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Rangel made the odd request in a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, six days after the House Ethics Committee "admonished" him over a corporate-funded junket to the Caribbean.
Sorry, Charlie James Taranto 2010
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If nothing else, you can read the opinion to learn the difference between being "admonished" and being "censured."
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I read in one comment somewhere that you felt "admonished" for your choice.
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He was formally "admonished" by his colleagues on the very lax Senate Ethics Committee.
Howie Klein: Did McCain Learn Anything From His Keating Five Experience? 2008
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