abusive
/əˈbjuː.sɪv/
Dictionary
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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