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abusive

/əˈbjuː.sɪv/
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adjective

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

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

  • Tending to deceive; fraudulent.
  • Tending to misuse; practising or containing abuse.
  • Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.
  • Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.
  • Catachrestic.

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