Word Finder - abusive

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Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.

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

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Tending to deceive; fraudulent.

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Tending to misuse; practising or containing abuse.

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Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.

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Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.

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Catachrestic.

He flew into an abusive rage when he saw it.

He must think they were in an abusive relationship.

He'd gone from being tormented by his own mother to the affection of an abusive father who regretted ever having him.

The most obvious example of racial aggravation is where racially abusive language is used.

Denise - She struggles with her abusive son, Jeremy, and he decides to join the Army, She goes back to school to become a nurse.

The twisted, abusive man who had fallen prey to the same curse in his blood that she carried in hers.

Abusive posts will not be tolerated under any circumstances.

It's no wonder that the kids grow up abusive, stroppy, slow learners, and disrespectful of authority!

But marital sexuality, in its many forms, is in no way evil if it is not coercive or abusive to either partner.

The police, prosecution service, and the courts, appear reluctant to take any action against the violent or abusive mothers.

A woman who fatally stabbed her abusive husband had her murder conviction quashed by the court of appeal today.

Like Robinson, the former United States President never knew his father, endured an abusive stepfather and idolized his mother.

A person shall not behave in a disorderly manner in the library or use violent, abusive or obscene language therein.

The general monetary confusion is greatly intensified by the fact that the piastre unit varies for almost every province; thus, while the pound at Constantinople is counted at 108 piastres silver, it is at about 127 piastres for one kind of transaction and 180 for another in Smyrna, 135 piastres at Adrianople, 140 at Jerusalem, and so forth, accounts being kept in " abusive piastres," which exist no longer.

When he had thus disposed of the " Paralogisms " of his more formidable antagonist in the first five lessons, he ended with a lesson on " Manners " to the two professors together, and set himself gravely at the close to show that he too could be abusive.

Men had been convicted for criticizing the Red Cross, doubting the utility of knitting socks for soldiers, using abusive and intemperate language in arguments about the war or producing such a motion picture as The Spirit of '76 which in one part represented British soldiers using bayonets at the Wyoming valley massacre.

They fear abusive conservators will shut off life support to patients who would have chosen to live.

His sister talks him into trying to track down her abusive spouse, who has vanished without a trace.

I 'm sure you know it was gar 's abusive, incoherent and vitriolic rants that caused the furor.

Older children and children who have come from an abusive or emotionally lacking home may have a difficult time forming a bond with their adoptive parents.

About two years ago I acquired a cat named Smokey from my neighbor who saved him from abusive owners.

Yelling at them and being abusive only adds stress to the situation.

The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) protects consumers against abusive and unfair collection practices.

The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act protects consumers from abusive collection practices.

For instance, collectors can only call you between the hours of 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. and they cannot threaten you or use abusive language.

Knowing your rights can help protect you against abusive behavior.

Therefore, unless one spouse lives out of state or is abusive, the court will give each parent equal time with the child.

From a sick parent or sibling to an abusive relationship, family issues can often be a motivating factor for teens to leave school.

If the bully begins to get physically abusive, your parents are your first line of defense.

Over two million hospitalizations and four million emergency room visits per year related to abusive alcohol use.

Alcoholics are also more likely to live in abusive situations, become involved in domestic violence and have trouble with the law.

Some alcoholics are abusive to spouses, including emotionally, verbally, and physically, while others keep to themselves and avoid intimacy.

Schelske drinks too much and as a result can be verbally abusive.

Despite her poverty-stricken, abusive upbringing, Joanna was surrounded by music.

Rihanna speaking out about her abusive relationship with Chris Brown comes right before her new album Rated R, which is set for release at the end of November 2009.

Details about Kim Kardashian's abusive marriage are beginning to surface.

Finally, she gathered her strength and with the support of her family, left her abusive marriage.

Some have been rescued from puppy mills, abusive situations or found wandering the streets.

Luckily, there is a whole host of services designed to protect senior citizens from dishonest or abusive people.

If the person who is being abusive is a family member, it would be especially difficult for the older person to report the crime to authorities due to feelings of embarrassment or shame.

Multiple simultaneous stressors are also possible, such as starting daycare and having an abusive caretaker at the daycare or a divorce complicated by parental substance abuse.

The use of educational programs to teach caregivers good parenting skills and to be aware of abusive behaviors so that they seek help for abusive tendencies is critical to stopping abuse.

If an abusive home life is at the root of the conduct problem, every effort should be made to move the child into a more supportive environment.

There is evidence that children from abusive and neglectful homes start to feel better in foster care; however, separation is almost always difficult for children, regardless of the circumstances.

Children in abusive or neglectful families are at higher risk of FTT, but these cases make up only a small proportion of the total.

The child is abused; abusive parents are more likely to neglect their children and less likely to communicate with them verbally.

The child who is in an abusive family may pretend to be a mother who loves and cuddles her child rather than one who verbally or physically abuses her child.

Or in play this same child might act out abusive experience by hitting or screaming at a doll that symbolizes the child.

A reported 17 percent of children who were victims of MSBP and who were eventually returned to an abusive caregiver suffered further abuse.

From 10 percent to perhaps as many as 40 percent of abusive parents were themselves physically abused as children, but most abused children do not grow up to be abusive parents.