"admonished" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It means to caution someone or to reprove them gently. An example sentence is: The teacher admonished the students for not completing their assignments.
Human rights activists and politicians in South Africa, for instance, closely studied German trials, public commemoration and schoolbooks; and the Chinese admonished Japan that, in dealing with the second world war, it should adopt the "German model".
Because, in a world in which the male body is currently being celebrated in so many forms – guys are now being applauded for "Dad Bod" (which gay men have long known as "bears") – showing a little leg shouldn't get anyone admonished from on the street, especially when it's not as though I invented short-shorts.
In 1978 the European court of human rights admonished Britain for its inhuman and degrading treatment of the 14 prisoners but fell short of finding the UK guilty of torture.
In Washington, a senior US official admonished Nigeria's failure to tackle the insurgency.
In 1978 the ECHR admonished Britain for its inhuman and degrading treatment of the 14 prisoners but fell short of finding the UK guilty of torture.
As they flooded towards the exists the session's chairman, Archy Kirkwood, admonished 'those of you who think that lunch is more important than the future of the universe'.
This year it is set to be the worst offender among the six European countries recently admonished by the European Commission about the size of their shortfall (see chart).
Strange, then, that the very Mr Bush who admonished the appeasers from Israel's parliament has allowed Americans to negotiate with the North for years.
His ethics stumbles (which included not paying taxes on a Caribbean villa, and taking a number of sun-filled trips which were paid for by corporations), were many and well known, yet went unpunished by Congress until last month, when he was admonished by the House Ethics Committee for violating gift rules.
But unlike Mr Blair, he does not insist that the role takes a missionary liberal form.The right temperamentAs for his record, he was sceptical about the Iraq surge and admonished Israel during its war with Lebanon, which cheered his party's doves.
When an aide produced a copy of The Economist from her bag, he admonished her in mock-serious tones not to read something so complicated.Mr Richardson bonds with others as instantly as super-glue.
