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A few years later, I got a comminatory phone call from one of the firm's founders.

From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2013

A fortnight ago, a short comminatory note, such as Britain once sent to Finland, was drawn up in three versions.

From Time Magazine Archive

But presently Arran began to suspect that the portrait was not as comminatory as he could have wished.

From The Hermit and the Wild Woman by Wharton, Edith

I betook myself straight to the H�tel Danieli, hoping against hope that Ibsen's sole answer would not be a comminatory grunt and an instant rupture of all future relations with myself.

From A Christmas Garland by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

To speak as seriously as may be, the language is no longer hortatory, like Holland's, but minatory, even comminatory.

From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir