Meaning of abusive | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
2. Tending to deceive; fraudulent.
   obsolete
3. Tending to misuse; practising or containing abuse.
   archaic
4. Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.
5. Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.
6. Catachrestic.
   archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“All they could ever do was to shout abusive inanities at me and my colleagues.”

“an abusive treaty”

“[…] to begin in this vacation the foundation of a trifling subject which might shroud in his leaves the abusive enormities of these our times.”

“the abusive prerogatives of his see”

“I am […]necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof.”

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