Abusive

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  • adjective. Characterized by improper or wrongful use.
  • adjective. Using or containing insulting or hurtful language.
  • adjective. Causing physical injury to another.
  • adjective. Relating to or practicing sexual abuse.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Practising abuse; using harsh words or ill treatment: as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow. Characterized by or containing abuse; marked by contumely or ill use; harsh; ill-natured; injurious.
  • Marked by or full of abuses; corrupt: as, an abusive exercise of power.
  • Misleading, or tending to mislead; employed by misuse; improper.
  • Synonyms and Insolent, insultiug, offensive, scurrilous, ribald, reproachful, opprobrious, reviling.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.
  • adjective. Given to misusing; also, full of abuses.
  • adjective. Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage
  • adjective. Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
  • adjective. Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Being physically injurious; characterized by repeated violence.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. expressing offensive reproach
  • adjective. characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment
    • Word Usage
    "Earlier this year, temporary workers at a Pennsylvania plant packing Hershey products staged a mass walkout over what they described as abusive working conditions."
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