abusive
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
abusive
- Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous. [First attested in the early 17th century.]
- All they could ever do was to shout abusive inanities at me and my colleagues.
- (obsolete) Tending to deceive; fraudulent. [Attested only from the early to mid 17th century.]
- (archaic) Tending to misuse; practising or containing abuse. [First attested in the late 16th century.]
- Being physically injurious; characterized by repeated violence.
- Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]
- (archaic) Catachrestic. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]
- reproachful, scurrilous, opprobrious, insolent, insulting, injurious, offensive, reviling, berate, vituperative
- Portuguese: abusivo
- Russian: бра́нный
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