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adj. - Containing warning of punishment.

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  • Most people were uneasy gazing at Nicci, either because of her startling beauty, or because of her cool, often denunciative, presence.
  • It knew the personal fascination and the denunciative writings of Ferdinand la Salle.
  • And thereat John Gordon delivered himself of a vigorous flood of English, terse, intensive, denunciative, and composed solely of expletives and adjectives.
  • (catechetical) form, and is devoted to describing the properties of numbers, "odd, even, perfect, imperfect, composite, plane, solid, cardinal, ordinal, adverbial,...
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