"admonitory" in the adjective sense
1. admonitory, cautionary, exemplary, monitory, warning
serving to warn
"shook a monitory finger at him"
"an exemplary jail sentence"
2. admonitory, admonishing, reproachful, reproving
expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective
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