| Exhibitors agree formally to abide by all provisions of these regulations, which are strictly enforced and may not be considered merely comminatory. |
| It might have been a honky-tonk, a tourist camp where they sold beer, to use Mr. Culbertson's comminatory phrase. |
| The rules are to be strictly interpreted and cannot be considered as purely comminatory. |
| But presently he began to suspect that the portrait was not as comminatory as he could have wished. |
| I detected something comminatory in his yellow, emaciated countenance, but I believe now he was simply startled by my youth. |
| They are more prescriptive and recommendatory than comminatory. |
