adjective
- Serving to warn.
- usage: "shook a monitory finger at him"; "an exemplary jail sentence"
- synonyms: cautionary, exemplary, monitory, warning
- Expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective.
- synonyms: admonishing, reproachful, reproving
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