1) Abusive remarks 2) Beastly 3) Cruel 4) Discourteous 5) Expressing offensive reproach 6) French word used in English 7) Impertinent 8) Insolent 9) Insulting 10) Like a heckling crowd 11) Like diatribe 12) Like invective 13) Like some bad language 14) Mean 15) Offensive 16) Opprobrious 17) Profanity-laced
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• (a.) Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied. • (a.) Given to misusing; also, full of abuses. • (a.) Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow. • (a.) Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous....
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[Adjective] Cruel and unkind.
Example: The woman had spent years living with an abusive partner and now wanted to end the relationship.
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A·bu'sive adjective [ Confer French
abusif , from Latin
abusivus .]
1. Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied. « I am . . . necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the
abusive acceptation thereof.
Fuller. »
2. Given to m...
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[
adj] - expressing offensive reproach 2. [adj] - characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment
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insulting adjective expressing offensive reproach
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using, containing, or characterized by harshly or coarsely insulting language: an abusive author; abusive remarks. · treating badly or injuriously; mistreating, esp. physically: his abusive handling of the horse. · wrongly used; corrupt: an abusive exercise of power.
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