admonish
verb (used with object)
to caution, advise, or counsel against something.
are admonishing
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present progressiveof admonish.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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"After all, we too are admonishing our street urchins to love cats and dogs instead of torturing them."
From Time Magazine Archive
SOCRATES: And now, my friend, as you are already beginning to be a public character, and are admonishing and reproaching me for not being one, suppose that we ask a few questions of one another.
From Gorgias by Benjamin Jowett
