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Admonish 

1. To indicate duties or obligations. To express warning or disapproval to ecspecially in a gentle, earnest, or solicitious manner.
2. to give friendly earnest advice or encouragement to.
Chick 1: I admonish you to talk to Liasor.
Chick 2: Really you actually thick I have a shot with him?
Chick 1: Yeah sista you know you be workin it!
Chick 2: Yeah I've been practicing.
Chick 1: I can tell! He be liking them thick hoes though.
Chick 2: K then lets go to McDonalds.
Admonish by Sahara Desert December 24, 2008
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admonish 

to metaphorically beat one with a stick, this is a phrase that usually follows a correction or update of popular philosophy
... After one visit Confucius' disciples
asked him how he was able to correct and admonish Lao Tzu.
admonish by christi May 11, 2004
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adonished 

Being overwhelmingly amazed at the beauty and direction found in our failures.
She was adonished when she didn't make the team and knew she could work harder!
adonished by Sophree May 3, 2015

Adminish 

1. Verb

The act of exercising one's powers as an admin, always aimed at the suppression of freedom of speech and any originality of thought, used by megalomaniacal righteous adminish pricks with halos who need locking up pretty indefinitely – to be cured of their total lack of any – literally not a smidgen – sense of humour.

2. Adjective/ Adverb

The above described qualities.
1. The most holly members of forums, i.e. trolls are often adminished just for not agreeing with admins' ass-kissing, slavish minions from their beloved server-swamps.

2. TFD's admins are exceptionally adminish, carrying out their pruning & banning duties 24/7. What a bunch of losers – don't you get that free speech is sacred, morons?!!
Adminish by NeuroN0ir July 1, 2010

Adminish 

To rebuke someone for not understanding how to use their computer. (Typically coming from a system admin)
I had to adminish my dad for not knowing where the program went when he minimized it.
Adminish by bnamer June 26, 2010

adminish 

The manager adminished her assistant for arriving a work late again.
adminish by Eric X. February 24, 2008

admonistration 

A government body dat likes to do a lot of finger-wagging and tongue-clucking at the people under its jurisdiction.
I resent having Big Brother try to tell me what's best for me, anyway, but what really broils my pudding is when an admonistration hypocritically "talks out of both sides of its mouth" (i.e., says one thing but does another)... a classic example is where they loudly decry the practice of couples' cohabitating without a wedding band, yet they charge people more in income-taxes if they get married.
admonistration by QuacksO June 8, 2019