comminatory
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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
The chief, tall, black, sombre, stood and threatened Jean-aux-Choux with comminatory forefinger.
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
This order not being obeyed, on the 15th of December he expedited a second brief, which was comminatory.
From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Juan Antonio Llorente
Paper of that colour is sacred to the Loves—to stolen kisses and assignations—and to see it with a comminatory text tacked on at the foot of the page turns my stomach.
From Noughts and Crosses Stories, Studies and Sketches by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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