cautionary
IPA: kˈɔʃʌnɛri
adjective
- Serving to caution or warn; admonitory
- Serving to ward off; preventive
- (obsolete) Held as security or hostage
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Examples of "cautionary" in Sentences
- Web design project from hell immortalized in cautionary webcomic
- He looked guardedly up and down the road, his expression cautionary now, one white man to another.
- This is a story is your basic Frankenstein cautionary tale of science uncontrolled, and the dangerous consequences when the creation turns on the master.
- Calce and journalist Craig Silverman are releasing "Mafiaboy: How I Cracked the Internet and Why It's Still Broken," which he describes as a cautionary tale that looks at his hacking past as well as the current state of personal security on the Internet.
- The Partnership has listed some of the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in such forward-looking statements, which I refer to as cautionary statements and its earnings press release which can be viewed on the company's website on subsequent, written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to the partnership or person acting on this behalf are especially qualified in their entirety by such cautionary statements.
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