diff --git a/irods/manager/metadata_manager.py b/irods/manager/metadata_manager.py
index 8cf23966..2007a77d 100644
--- a/irods/manager/metadata_manager.py
+++ b/irods/manager/metadata_manager.py
@@ -36,12 +36,14 @@ class MetadataManager(Manager):
     def __init__(self, *_):
         self._opts = _MetadataManager_opts_initializer.copy()
         super().__init__(*_)
+        # For the iRODS-api keywords only (currently ADMIN_KW is the sole one used):
+        self.__kw = {}
 
     @property
     def use_timestamps(self):
         return self._opts['timestamps']
 
-    __kw: Dict[str, Any] = {}  # default (empty) keywords
+    __default_kw: Dict[str, Any] = {}  # default (empty) keywords
 
     def _updated_keywords(self, opts):
         kw_ = self.__kw.copy()
@@ -52,18 +54,20 @@ def get_api_keywords(self):
         return self.__kw.copy()
 
     def __call__(self, **flags):
-        # Make a new shallow copy of the manager object, but update options from parameter list.
+        # Make a new shallow copy of the manager object, but duplicate options from parameter list as well as iRODS API
+        # flags (stored in the instance's private __kw member) to be applied in each call.
         new_self = copy.copy(self)
         new_self._opts = copy.copy(self._opts)
+        new_self.__kw = copy.copy(self.__kw)
 
         # Update the flags that do bookkeeping in the returned(new) manager object.
         new_self._opts.update((key, val) for key, val in flags.items() if val is not None)
 
-        # Update the ADMIN_KW flag in the returned(new) object.
+        # For the new object, make ADMIN_KW flag or absence thereof reflect the admin option in _opts.
         if new_self._opts.get('admin'):
-            self.__kw[kw.ADMIN_KW] = ""
+            new_self.__kw[kw.ADMIN_KW] = ""
         else:
-            self.__kw.pop(kw.ADMIN_KW, None)
+            new_self.__kw.pop(kw.ADMIN_KW, None)
 
         return new_self
 
diff --git a/irods/test/meta_test.py b/irods/test/meta_test.py
index 880bf1fe..f2f0933f 100644
--- a/irods/test/meta_test.py
+++ b/irods/test/meta_test.py
@@ -798,6 +798,52 @@ def test_prevention_of_attribute_creation__issue_795(self):
             # data.metadata(admin = True) generates a cloned object but for the one change to "admin".
             data.metadata.admin = True
 
+    def test_destickifying_of_admin_option__issue_833(self):
+        # Create a rodsuser, and a session for that roduser.
+        adm = self.sess
+        user = d = None
+        try:
+            user = adm.users.create("bobby", "rodsuser")
+            user.modify("password", "bpass")
+            sessions = []
+            for _ in range(2):
+                with iRODSSession(
+                    port=adm.port,
+                    zone=adm.zone,
+                    host=adm.host,
+                    user=user.name,
+                    password="bpass",
+                ) as ses:
+                    # Get a reference to a data object owned by the rodsuser, creating it if not already there.
+                    d = ses.data_objects.create("/{adm.zone}/home/{user.name}/testfile".format(**locals()))
+
+                    # d.metadata is a different MetadataManager instance (and d, a different session instance) on the
+                    # second iteration of the loop as compared to the first.  Thus, admin flags should not carry over.
+                    if not sessions:
+                        d.metadata(admin=True)
+                    else:
+                        # Should not be applying ADMIN_KW because INSUFFICIENT_PRIVILEGE_LEVEL exception would result
+                        d.metadata.set('a','b')
+                    sessions.append(ses)
+
+            # Admin option should be false after the second loop iteration.
+            self.assertFalse(d.metadata.admin)
+
+            get_call_keywords = lambda metacoll: metacoll._manager._updated_keywords((),)
+
+            # Applying admin=True should result in API flags containing ADMIN_KW among the lookup keys.
+            self.assertIn(kw.ADMIN_KW, get_call_keywords(md_modified:=d.metadata(admin=True)))
+
+            # Admin option should be on in the object options bookkeeping.
+            self.assertTrue(md_modified.admin)
+
+            # However, the unmodified source object should not reflect use of an ADMIN_KW.
+            self.assertNotIn(kw.ADMIN_KW, get_call_keywords(d.metadata)) # keyword updates not reflected in copied obj.
+        finally:
+            if d:
+                d.unlink(force=True)
+            if user:
+                user.remove()
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     # let the tests find the parent irods lib